Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:03:23 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber
> <wlfraed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:02:34 -0800 (PST),
>>"leonardodiserpierodavinci@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>><leonardodiserpierodavinci@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> declaimed the following in
>>soc.genealogy.computing:
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>>>I installed PAF a few weeks ago and as far as I remember it did not
>>>have the option to im****t GED files.
>>>Thanks for the links.
>>
>> Really?
>>
>> PAF is, as I recall, produced by the people who, theoretically,
>>/define/ what is a GEDCOM file... It would seem rather odd that it
>>wouldn't im****t their own data transfer file...
>
>
> Apparently Leonardo is commenting without really learning how to use
> the programs that he has downloaded. I'm still waiting for the names
> of the 3 programs he downloaded that will not im****t GEDCOM files.
>
> I must have tried about 20 different programs over the last 20 years,
> and I really didn't find a single one that wouldn't read the basic
> data from a GEDCOM. Not all did a decent job of it, but I was able to
> get names, and bmd dates.
>
The Family Edge /DOS (TFE) in its freeware version did not
do GED. In fact, IRRC, even the paid version required a
utility to do GED.
A freebie that didn't do GED was something called
"Genealogy" -- OTOH, maybe what it didn't do was work on any
of my boxes rather than not doing GED, since I never got to
the point where I could even do dataentry with it.
Eucalyptus a shareware out of Oz didn't do GED either.
OTOH, all those programs have been defunct for more than 8
years, and I didn't even know you could still d/l 'em.
Cheryl
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