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From: Martin Potter <>
Subject: Re: Help: need Windows software to replace PAF
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:05:25 GMT


Robin J Goldstone () writes:
>
> So now what do we do? One choice is to give up on the PC idea and just get
> Dad a better Mac. Another choice is to find Windows-based geneology software
> which is as nice or nicer than PAF and, more importantly, can somehow
> accept his PAF data so that he does not have to re-enter everything. Dad
says
> PAF can output data in "gedcom" format which he says is a sort of universal
> format which other programs can read. But he also indicated he has entered
> a lot of notes i.e. stuff outside of the standard fields and he is concerned
> that this data might get lost in the translation.
>

I expect someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I will be a little
surprised if Mac-PAF actually uses different data file structure than
DOS-PAF. If they are the same structure, then there is no need to go
through GEDCOM conversion, just use a utility that will transport the Mac
data files to a PC-readable medium. Does someone out there know for sure??
... Martin

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