On Jan 31, 4:49=A0pm, singhals <singh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:03:23 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber
> > <wlfr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:02:34 -0800 (PST),
> >>"leonardodiserpierodavi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
> >><leonardodiserpierodavi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> declaimed the following in
> >>soc.genealogy.computing:
>
> >>>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.
>
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Really?
>
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0PAF is, as I recall, produced by the people who,
theoret=
ically,
> >>/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. =A0In 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.
>
> =A0 Cheryl- Hide quoted text -
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Bad genealogy programs, like bad genealogy, seem to float around the
net forever.
*GRIN*
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