Ira, How can I get the HTML converter to introduce line feeds into Misc Data fields to improve the result web page image? (May also apply to other text fields) Kind regards Harvey Nimmo

Probably you are looking for Ken Peavy's program GeneoHTML. You can download it using this URL: http://www.geocities.com/kenscape/geneo/geneohtml/geneohtml.zip Sigurd Eliassen Norway

The Story Reports still goes like this when just one parent is known and entered (assume Ira is the name of the single parent): 1. The following marriage sentence is written: "Ira and were married." 2. The following sentence is written when the children are listed: "Ira and Ira had the following children:" Sigurd Eliassen Norway

The 'fix' for outlook express: General knowledge among a number of my cyber-savy friends with similar experiences to yours, is that Outlook Express is a particularly bad piece of work. It is also the target program and the back door entry for most viri beamed at MSFT. If anything will fail it will be OE, and it will drag the rest of the system down with it. It's companion IE isn't much better, and it's also a common virus target. It's considered to be a very unsafe web browser. If you want to avoid crashes and infections don't use OE or IE, they're just too 'fragile' for reliable use. There are better alternatives. Mike Peltier At 11:47 11/03/01 +0100, you wrote: >Recently our computer crashed bigtime. We lost all our information. . It was only when using outlook express together with other >programs that our computer would freeze up. I believe it had something to do >with the configuration in the actual program. >Possibly reconfiguring outlook express would solve the problem. There are >fixes for outlook express as well. > >Dawn >

Ira, Do I remember rightly that you had a GEDCOM/HTML generator for a while in your program which generated a tree format for the data? I believe you decided to ditch it in favour of your integrated Web page generator. What was the name of the program? Where might I get a copy? Greetings Harvey Nimmo

Dear Walter, >Ctrl + Alt + Del has no effect whatsoever. I believe, after crippling your fingers as above, it pays to wait a while for some time-outs to take effect, before reaching for the reset button. Also after killing programs in the task list the system waits for time-outs which may take up to a minute. Are you on-line when the crashes occur? Greetings Harvey Nimmo

Thanks for writing, Dawn. I too believe that Outlook Express has something to do with the issue. A friend of mine in South Africa, who also despises Outlook Express, sent me another mail program to use, but I couldn't get MS to let me use it as my default mail server. So, obviously, that didn't help matters much. Of course I may simply have not know what I was doing, which pretty much my excuse for getting married the fifth time. At any rate, I appreciate your commetns. walt [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Conner Jeppesen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 4:47 AM Subject: Re: [CFTW] A Lot of Thank Yous and A Few Responses > Walt, > > I must say your personality towards your situation is amusing. It does get > frustrating at times. With so many programs, one has to play pick and choose > to find the actual problem. > > Recently our computer crashed bigtime. We lost all our information. Thank > goodness we had burned my tree! I really don't know what caused the actual > problem but, outlook express did have problems while running with other > programs. We use chat programs so I may talk with my family in the US. Of > course we use internet explorer. There are many other program we run at the > same time. It was only when using outlook express together with other > programs that our computer would freeze up. I believe it had something to do > with the configuration in the actual program. > > Since everything was completely deleted from our computer, we had to start > from scratch. There are no problems now. I do not suggest starting all over. > Possibly reconfiguring outlook express would solve the problem. There are > fixes for outlook express as well. > > This may or may not be the problem. This is only my personal experience. I > will include a link to outlook express, if you'd like to try it out. > Dawn > > http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/welcome/outlook.asp > > Hope this helps. > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from CFT-WIN, send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] (for individual messages) > [email protected] (for Digest mode) > Subject: unsubscribe > In the body include only one word: unsubscribe > (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html >

Hi, SgtGeorge-- The pointer does move. In fact, it is the only thing that moves during these freezes. Unfortunately, however, it doesn't work. Thanks for writing. I appreciate your help very much. walt [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "George W. Durman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 2:56 AM Subject: Re: [CFTW] A Lot of Thank Yous and A Few Responses > Walt, when a system freezes up so that even the mouse pointer > won't move, and a CTRL-ALT-DEL won't work, 99.9% of the > time it is a problem with a driver for the graphics card. You > might try checking on the web site for the maker of your video > card and see if there is a later driver. > > SgtGeorge > > At 07:46 PM 03/10/2001, walterboswell1 wrote: > *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* > >Hi, All-- > > > >(snip) > >5. When my computer crashes, I don't get an error message--at least not > >that I am > >aware of. The computer simply freezes. Nothing works except the pointer. > >The only > >way to get out of the freeze is to shut the computer down with the power > >switch. > >Ctrl + Alt + Del has no effect whatsoever. > >6. As I mentioned before, most of these freezes occur when I have both > >CFTW and > >Outlook Express running simultaneously, but not always. On the other hand, > >I > >really can't remember at any time my computer freezing in the same way it > >does > >when CFTW is running. Usually, whenever a freeze does occur without CFTW, > >which is > >almost never, the ctrl + alt + del will get it going again. > >(snip) > **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********** > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the List Manager at: > [email protected] > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ >

Hi, Harvey-- Thanks for writing. I appreciate your comments. Several times during these freezes I have allowed my computer to sit in this "frozen" state for as long as thirty minutes. Nothing ever happens. I mean it just sits there in some sort of catatonic state until I shut it down. It's a really strange situation. Personally, I think Outlook Express has something to do with it. At any rate: thanks for writing. walt [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harvey Nimmo" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 5:28 AM Subject: AW: [CFTW] A Lot of Thank Yous and A Few Responses > Dear Walter, > > >Ctrl + Alt + Del has no effect whatsoever. > > I believe, after crippling your fingers as above, it pays to wait a while > for some time-outs to take effect, before reaching for the reset button. > Also after killing programs in the task list the system waits for time-outs > which may take up to a minute. > > Are you on-line when the crashes occur? > > Greetings > > Harvey Nimmo > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the List Manager at: > [email protected] > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >

Walt, I must say your personality towards your situation is amusing. It does get frustrating at times. With so many programs, one has to play pick and choose to find the actual problem. Recently our computer crashed bigtime. We lost all our information. Thank goodness we had burned my tree! I really don't know what caused the actual problem but, outlook express did have problems while running with other programs. We use chat programs so I may talk with my family in the US. Of course we use internet explorer. There are many other program we run at the same time. It was only when using outlook express together with other programs that our computer would freeze up. I believe it had something to do with the configuration in the actual program. Since everything was completely deleted from our computer, we had to start from scratch. There are no problems now. I do not suggest starting all over. Possibly reconfiguring outlook express would solve the problem. There are fixes for outlook express as well. This may or may not be the problem. This is only my personal experience. I will include a link to outlook express, if you'd like to try it out. Dawn http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/welcome/outlook.asp Hope this helps.

Quoting Chuck Edgerly ([email protected]): > I also have a P 120 and the photos load just fine. No delay at all. I am running > Windows 98 2nd edition with all the updates available from misrosoft, including the > new direct X and other graphics patches. Maybe others with slow loading photos should > try downloading these updates. I would be surprised if CFT uses DirectX libraries. First because the development tools for DirectX are certainly not free (hey, this is *Microsoft* product...:-)), and also because this is absolutely unuseful except for making bloatware. So, I don't think that patching and re-patchging the operating system will make it faster for photos loading. You will only increase your chances of getting the system unstable...as usual when some patch originating from Redmond, WA goes on your hard disk...:-) But (for the original contributor) you're on your own... Try to patch, patch and re-patch....and cross your fingers at each reboot, of course!

Dawn....Another solution would be to switch to Netscape.....I've used it for years. It appears, that besides carrying a lot of viruses, Outlook Express has more than it's share of problems. Amy. Dawn Conner Jeppesen wrote: > Walt, > > I must say your personality towards your situation is amusing. It does get > frustrating at times. With so many programs, one has to play pick and choose > to find the actual problem. > > Recently our computer crashed bigtime. We lost all our information. Thank > goodness we had burned my tree! I really don't know what caused the actual > problem but, outlook express did have problems while running with other > programs. We use chat programs so I may talk with my family in the US. Of > course we use internet explorer. There are many other program we run at the > same time. It was only when using outlook express together with other > programs that our computer would freeze up. I believe it had something to do > with the configuration in the actual program. > > Since everything was completely deleted from our computer, we had to start > from scratch. There are no problems now. I do not suggest starting all over. > Possibly reconfiguring outlook express would solve the problem. There are > fixes for outlook express as well. > > This may or may not be the problem. This is only my personal experience. I > will include a link to outlook express, if you'd like to try it out. > Dawn > > http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/welcome/outlook.asp > > Hope this helps. > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from CFT-WIN, send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] (for individual messages) > [email protected] (for Digest mode) > Subject: unsubscribe > In the body include only one word: unsubscribe > (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html

When you are merging two databases, how do you tell the program to combine all the names when merging matched individuals? Mike

Walt, when a system freezes up so that even the mouse pointer won't move, and a CTRL-ALT-DEL won't work, 99.9% of the time it is a problem with a driver for the graphics card. You might try checking on the web site for the maker of your video card and see if there is a later driver. SgtGeorge At 07:46 PM 03/10/2001, walterboswell1 wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >Hi, All-- > >(snip) >5. When my computer crashes, I don't get an error message--at least not >that I am >aware of. The computer simply freezes. Nothing works except the pointer. >The only >way to get out of the freeze is to shut the computer down with the power >switch. >Ctrl + Alt + Del has no effect whatsoever. >6. As I mentioned before, most of these freezes occur when I have both >CFTW and >Outlook Express running simultaneously, but not always. On the other hand, >I >really can't remember at any time my computer freezing in the same way it >does >when CFTW is running. Usually, whenever a freeze does occur without CFTW, >which is >almost never, the ctrl + alt + del will get it going again. >(snip) **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**********

I use McAfee v5.15 and keep it updated daily. When I installed 3.06 there were no viruses. I just ran McAfee on EVERY file on my system (over 13 Gb of files) and it detected no infections. Would the person who wrote the original message about CFTW carrying a virus please notify this List what your AV program called the "virus". I had to identify it for you. You say you "downloaded CFT-Win...from a computer in my office". Did you download it from the web TO the computer in your office? Or did you download it at home FROM the computer in your office? How do you know it had already "infected some files"? What were those files? Were they files that came with CFTW? Some AV programs, Norton and McAfee included, did give "false positives" for certain Windows files. McAfee fixed their program but I don't know if Norton did or not. Please, when sending this type of email, especially when it is alarming to so many, give all the pertinent details. Nothing can be checked if you are vague. Since many of us have down loaded and installed 3.06 with no problems and with our AV programs NOT detecting anything, and since it seems to be peculiar to your system, I really doubt that the downloaded file was infected. We need to know more in order to dig into it. Thanks, George W. Durman Listowner At 08:39 AM 03/09/2001, Ira J Lund wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >At 05:25 PM 3/8/01 -0500, you wrote: > >I downloaded CFT-Win Version 3.06 today from a computer in my office, > when I >ran install my virus >detection software found a virus and stopped the >installation. It had already infected some files which >the virus >software >deleted, hopefully they will be restored in back-up tonight. > >I'm pretty sure the virus came with your software, I didn't download > anything >else today of anytime recently, >and the alert popped up when your >software >was >installing. > > >Can anyone else verify this? I don't think my software is carrying a >virus, >but >if it is, I really want to know. > >Do any of you have some good virus checkers that can verify if this is >true? > >Thanks, Ira >------------------------------------------------ >Mr. Ira J. Lund >E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com > >Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043 > > >==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from CFT-WIN, send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] (for individual messages) > [email protected] (for Digest mode) >Subject: unsubscribe >In the body include only one word: unsubscribe >(Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**********

Hi Walter I'm sorry to hear that you are still having problems. Here are some ideas to try and information that you should supply in order for us to try to track down your problem. 1) When it crashes, please give details of what happens. E.G. Is it a GPF and exactly what is the error message and in which module did it occur. How often does it happen? Is it always at the same place? Does it always crash in the same way? 2) Your Pentium 200MMX should be fine. Can you tell us which chipset your motherboard uses, so that I can advise which chipset drivers to use. Harvey is right, Windows 95 may not be detecting the chipset correctly. However, I never load the "special" DMA drivers as they are very often problematic. 3) Exactly what version of Windows 95 are you using. Then I can advise which patches to load. Go "Start/Settings/Control Panel", open "System" and look for the version number on the "General" page. This can sometimes be misleading, so if you look in your Windows folder, sort by date and see which date appears most. This might sound a bit cryptic but you will see immediately when you look at the dates. Choose from 07/11/95, 12/31/95, 08/24/96, 05/01/97 or 11/26/97. 4) Since you are blind, are you perhaps using some of the "Accessibility Options"? Is it possible to temporarily disable these and see if it makes any difference. 5) Upgrade to Version 2.51x. This you can do for free. You might as well be using the last 2.x version. 6) Better still, as Ian suggested, try out version 3.06 for free for 45 days. There are many "must have" features. Then you can upgrade for just $20, a much better option than purchasing another package. I have also never had V3 crash on me, and I have run it on various operating systems from the original Window 95 (07/11/95- build 950), Windows 98 (SP1) and Windows NT 4.0 (SP3 & SP5) - never a problem. 7) Item 6 will probably make items 1 - 5 unnecessary! Keep me informed. John Smith South Africa

Check that you only have HIGH colour and not true colour Run Scandisk from inside windows You can easily do that from explorer by selecting propertys of C and then the second tab, tools (I think its called that in english) the run a "simple" and repair all errors. After that do a defrag which may take some time. Check what other programs are started behind the scene with the program msconfig START RUN msconfig <ENTER> Check the tab autostart for strange things ... Check that you have windows handeling your virtual memory This computer, propertys The rightmost tab Virtaul memory Should be handled by windows BTW I hopy you have windows 95 OSR2 as that version contain some fixes ... Better might be to go to win98 SE, Windows ME wouldnt be to good with only 48MB There are some really strange things that may happen in windows 95 that are fixed in 98! Some tips & trix that may work, at least this is what I would do as a starter. /Mats in Sweden > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: walterboswell1 [mailto:[email protected]] > Skickat: den 10 mars 2001 00:34 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: [CFTW] CFTW is the Best > > > Hi, All. Here's one for you. > > Apparently, I must be the only guy in the world having trouble > with CFTW. If you > will remember, I wrote to the list once before. I'm the guy who > keeps getting > crashes when CFTW is running. I have tried to discover some rhyme > or reason for my > problem, but it seems that almost all crashes involve CFTW in one > way or another. > These crashes usually happen when Microsoft Outlook Express > (which I loathe and > despise) is running simultaneously with CFTW, but not always. > Sometimes CFTW > crashes when it is the only program running. I love this program > and I would hate > to have to switch to another one, but I've just got to find some > answers or I am > going to be forced to take that most undesirable step. > > Recently, a friend of mine loaned me a copy of an older version > of one of the > biggest--if not THE biggest--commercial genealogy programs in the > States. Sad to > say, I have had no crashes with it--whether Outlook Express is > running or not. > Naturally, I don't like it as much as I like Cumberland, but if > these crashes > continue I'm afraid I'm going to lose more of my data than I > already have, and > something is just going to have to give. Perhaps someone on this > list has some new > suggestions. If so, lay on MacDuff. I'm all ears--both literally > and figuratively. > > I have the 32-bit 2.50x version of CFTW, which I have upgraded > once or twice from > the Cumberland web page. I use a Compaq 4508 Presario computer > with 2.98 GB of > hard drive and 48 MG of RAM (updated from the original 16, I > think). This computer > also has an Intel Pentium 200MHz processor with MMX technology. I > realize that > this is a rather outdated model, but I am not in position to buy > another computer, > so I'll have to make do with the one I've got. Anyhow: I also use > Microsoft > Windows 95 and a continuously running Norton 4.0 anti-virus with > the latest virus > definitions. (At one time, I thought this older version of Norton > might be causing > my problems, but I disabled it and, unfortunately, got the same > results. So I > don't that's the cause of all my woes. Darn it!) > > If anyone has any ideas at all, please respond to this message. I > am legally blind > and simply do not wish to change genealogy programs at this time. > As a person of > very limited vision, I find Cumberland to be an exceptionally > easy and uncluttered > program to use. So: any help would be very greatly appreciated. > In short, please > help save a fellow CTFW user from having to make the switch from > "our" program to > one of those "other" programs. > > walt boswell > [email protected] > > P.S. I too think that Ira should be the leader of the free world! > He's the best. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erik Helmer Nielsen" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:58 PM > Subject: Re: [CFTW] CFTW is the Best > > > > On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 I read > > > > >CFTW just gets better and better and better, and V3.06 is no > exception. >Thank > you very much for all the effort you put into producing a truly >excellent > genealogical program. > > > > I feel sure that all readers of this list can agree to that. > > > > But why are we Users of CFTW then so few and why is CFTW so > > little known by the genealogy public in general. > > I often see listings, surveys, mailings and articles about > > genealogy programs where CFTW is not even mentioned. > > Programs, which in my opinion are much inferior, get a lot more > > publicity, and they have more Users. > > > > Let us all make some efforts to promote our good program. > > - show it to all our friends, > > - demonstrate it at meetings in our associations, > > - write articles about it in our genealogical magazines, > > - publish it on some of the free CD-roms added to PC magazines. > > > > Let us all do our best and let us raise many new Users each of > > us. When we succeed in that, we may allow ourselves to say that > > the program we like is also worthy to be called the best. > > > > Erik > > > > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > > You can contact the List Manager at: > > [email protected] > > > > ============================== > > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the List Manager at: > [email protected] > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >

Hi, All-- First of all, I want to thank all you good folks for your suggestions concerning my problem with CFTW. Perhaps I should also try to answer a few of your questions. That might help you help me. At least I hope so. 1. First of all, I know computers about as well as I know Cindy Crawford (i.e., in the Biblical sense), which is to say, not at all. Before I lost my central vision, I was a college English teacher and musician. The closest I had ever come to a computer in my entire life happened one day in Sears and Roebuck when I got off the elevator on the wrong floor. So: one might say that computers have become somewhat of an overnight necessity for me. Without them, I would be totally unable to read and write. Of course, in the last few years, I have come a long way [baby], if I do say so myself--i.e., I have come all the way from an innocent neophyte to a very dangerous semi-literate bungler. (I tell you this just in case any of you are given to fits of pique when dealing with a raw amateur.) But, be that as it may, let me continue with my responses (such as they are) to your questions. 2. I always run defrag and scandisk at least once a week, whether my wife needs it or not; 3. Today, I downloaded a huge Windows 95 upgrade--the download took 43 minutes to complete. I hope it helps but, for all I know, I might simply have been downloading Pittsburg. 4. Of my 2.98 GB hard drive, 1.91 GB is still available. 4. At START UP my system is usually 90% free. The following programs are running: MSN Internet Access (Quick View); Explorer; Loadwc; Msmsgs; Systray; and Navapw32. (Compaq also has some kind of thing called WATCHDOG. I usually END TASK and get it out, but it always comes back. Just like Bill Clinton, it never goes away entirely.) 5. When my computer crashes, I don't get an error message--at least not that I am aware of. The computer simply freezes. Nothing works except the pointer. The only way to get out of the freeze is to shut the computer down with the power switch. Ctrl + Alt + Del has no effect whatsoever. 6. As I mentioned before, most of these freezes occur when I have both CFTW and Outlook Express running simultaneously, but not always. On the other hand, I really can't remember at any time my computer freezing in the same way it does when CFTW is running. Usually, whenever a freeze does occur without CFTW, which is almost never, the ctrl + alt + del will get it going again. 7. As best I can determine, my Windows 95 version is 4.00.950b; the IE is a recent download. It is 5.5.50.4134.0600. [There are so many dates in Windows, Ira, I can't really determine the most reoccurring one.] 8. I don't really use the Accessibility Options. I simply use white text against a very dark blue background, large fonts and, when I need it, Zoom Text, a screen enlargement program. I rarely run Zoom Text, however, when simply reading text. I use it primarily for hard-to-see attachments, files, pictures, naked girls, etc.. 9. I think I have already downloaded the 2.51x upgrade. And I will certainly consider the 3.05 version. Let's see how it goes. 10. And finally, I ordered a CD from Compaq which boasts a few "fixes" for very weary 4508 Presario owners. Perhaps it will do some good. Okay, so I hope some of these hopeless literary cripples (i.e., my answers) help you good folks decipher the reason for my computer and/or mental breakdowns. As always, I am open to any suggestions. (By the way, I don't suppose any of you guys might happen to have Cindy Crawford's telephone number handy, would you?) walt boswell [email protected]

Just check it with McAffe, last virus definition and last engine, and it detect nothing. Miguel Goldfeld Argentina -----Original Message----- From: CFT-WIN-D-request [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:01 AM To: CFT-WIN-L Subject: [CFTW] Virus? Can anyone else verify this? I don't think my software is carrying a virus, but if it is, I really want to know. Do any of you have some good virus checkers that can verify if this is true?

Ian, I run win3.11 with v2.?? on a 486 and win95 v3.05 on a 590, the two computers are networked. The win 3.11 unit is more stable and sometimes just as fast as the win95 unit, and no one bothers to write virus for win 3.1 Mike At 16:04 10/03/01 +1300, you wrote:. The only good thing that >can be said about Win 95 is that it is better than Win 3.1. > >Ian