Re: Beyond GEDCOM

In our last episode,
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the lovely and talented Robert Melson broadcast on soc.genealogy.misc:

> Out of curiosity, what would you suggest replace the gedcom
> "standard"?  Is the problem so much with the standard or with
> the programs that implement it?  As Micro$oft and Oracle have
> amply proved, a standard exists as a standard only so long as
> the players consider themselves bound by it; once the standard
> is breached it becomes meaningless.

Well, at this point, thanks to a suggestion on another group,
I am looking at gramps.  Since it is open source, it seems to me possible
that I can devise a commandline interface to it.

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