If you select Meet5.7|File|Export|USS Athlete Verification, the program will ask you for the meet contact name and phone number to store at the head of the file to facilitate communication between the contact and the USA Swimming LSC Registration Chair. Each swimmers name is stored successively in the SDIF format.
This small file is given the name Meetname.USS.
Send this file on a disk or attached to an email to your LSC's Registration Chair who will then easily be able to tell you if any swimmers are not registered and so not eligible to swim the meet, or can facilitate their prompt registration before the meet is swum.
When you get to the end of the meet and all the results have been entered, including all the relay swimmers names, you will want to distribute the results on disk to those teams that entered on disk.
You do not need to give these teams all the meet files in the meet folder but can supply only the ones essential to rebuilding the results data that will be used by the SwimTeam program to import the times into the individual swimmer data.. These files have the extension RC5, MT4 or MT6, together with teamlist.dat and meet5.ini
Use File|Copy meet files to diskette|Backup meet database, choosing the drive where the disk is located.
Alternatively you may choose File|Make zip file of data which will allow you to zip (compress into one file) and copy the .rc5, .mt4,.mt6 files and meet5.ini file onto the chosen disk drive. Remember to chose a file name ending in .zip.
This zip file is particularly useful if you plan on attaching the file to an email for distribution and for downloading from a web site.
These teams cannot use
the LSA database files but can use the USA Swimming SDIF files.
The ones produced by SwimMeet 5.7 are defined by SDIF version 3.
You make these files, as described below, using Meet5.7|File|Export|USS Data Interchg file.
Make sure to edit the End date as it will default to match the Start date of the meet.
Choose also whether to Include splits, how the timing system displayed those split times (cumulative times or interval), and the Split Distance between consecutive split times.
You can select teams to export by
choosing either Export all Teams or you can
choose any number of teams by highlighting them in the team list box.
You must enter Contact Name and Phone #.
If you have a diskette in the drive the file will be written on to it, otherwise it will be copied into the meet folder on the hard drive.
If you choose a single team the file may be called teamname.SD3.
Otherwise the file will be called meetname.SD3.
For Entered Teams that use HyTek®
If you need to export results for a team that is using Hy-Tek's DOS CommLink program (not the newer Win-Tm program) you will need to make a file that is compatible with their format. While nominally CommLink v6.1 imports SDIF v3 files they may find they need to use a different file more similar to the usual CommLink format, complete with checksum.
You make these files using Meet5.7|File|Export|Hytek Commlink File.
Fill in the text boxes as if making an SDIF file but choose Make Hytek (Dos) file
The file will be named cfile01.cl2
If you wish to make more than one file containing different teams make sure to copy
it onto a diskette or otherwise the second instance will write over and delete the first
file made.
If you have a lot of teams wanting their data at the end of the meet it might be better to make a file containing all the teams results data and "zip it up" to make a smaller file which you can copy onto their disks using MS Explorer (Windows 95,98) or File Manager (Windows3.1)