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From: "Phil Van Camp" <>
Subject: RE: [FTM] FTM VERSION 6
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:30:03 -0800
In-Reply-To: <OE160x4XFKpRcTCi90g0001a6d3@hotmail.com>


Jack ... There were a couple of msgs on the subject perhaps two weeks ago.
As I understand, the book feature simply combines all the "notes" as entered
for each person / family group. Each of these verges on huge. Someone gave
a number of characters for each note, & commented it worked out to about
eight pages. Apparently, the book could be infinite.
The drawback to using FTM, is that it is a very basic "text editor"
hearkening back to the earliest DOS days. Word will of course give you many
more features for fonts, colors, search & replace etc. etc.
If you want to be our guinea pig for book production, how about trying the
FTM, & see what it does ? Then if that is not up to snuff, I wonder if it
could be imported into MS word. That should be possible for further
editing. Personally, I wouldn't look forward to entering everything over
again from scratch. Another possibility would be to use Sun's "Star
Office". I've been playing a bit with ver. 5.0, & like it. I believe it's
up to ver. 5.2 now, & per the reviews it'll import everything short of pig
latin. It's available as a free download at Sun's web site. I've also
heard there are CD's around. I got my CD for ver. 5.0 off the cover of a UK
computer magazine.

Phil
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-----Original Message-----
From: JACK CHILDERS [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:11 PM
To:
Subject: [FTM] FTM VERSION 6


Shirley, the list owner, sent me a version 6. I had version 3 for years and
was worried it would not upgrade. Voile ! It worked marvelously. It
completely replaced all my different version 3 files, not a trace of them
anywhere on my computer.

I like version 6 a lot better than 3, so many more options. Anyone know how
many characters the Book feature will hold ? And how many Books it will
accommodate ? I have a HUGE book to put together on my Childers line and
wondering if I could do it all in FTM Book feature or have to use Word.

Jack Childers in OKC
International Society of BlackSheep Genealogists
http://www.gbnf.com/genealogy/childers/html/surnames.htm
"I've traveled a long way and some of the roads were not paved"



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