At 03:30 PM 8/13/98 +0200, you wrote: <snip> >This lead me to a few improvement suggestions for CFT-Win (I currently use >version 2.31) : >snip2> >-there should be a possibility to give more than one Source for a given >event. For instance, I often know that Mr X is dead between two dates >because I have a Source mentioning him alive for the first date and another >source mentioning him deceased for the other date. I actually mention the >second source in the Notes field, but would appreciate having the >possibility to mention it in a Source List (and thus using the "Select >Source" utility) I endorse this suggestion. >Finally, I sometimes regret that the software is not fully translated (only >menu items, but not dialog boxes). I don't know how is organised the source >code (the ideal situation would be a fully separated resource file), but I >think that a team of volunteers could translate in thir own language. If so, >I would be glad to help for the french translation... My son works for a company in Denver whose job is translating software into different languages: ILE. It may be that their services in this way would be very cheap for a one time job like this. After doing this once, it would likely be easy to modify for future changes and not require future investment. >Finally, I made a personal wish : CFT is the latest Windoze software I use. >I maintain a 50Mb on my portable computer just for it... For many reasons >(both technical and philosophical), I switched towards Open Source software >and I use Linux for nearly all my computing activities (both professional >and "recreational"). I would really appreciate a Linux/X-Window version of >CFT....Maybe not an easy task, but dreaming is always allowed...:-). Would >other people use such a version? I also use unix on office (Sun and Silicon graphics) systems. However, I have so many applications that can only be run in a Windows (e.g. Turbotax, Quicken, cd writers, database, spread sheets, Photoshop, etc) environment that such an added option would not do me much good unless all were available. I don't think such availability is in the foreseeable future so having one program that would also run in unix would not be a useful diversion to the limited time that IRA has for the present direction. I have even seen software developers like Papyrus for example, that wasted much of their effort to duplicate their software for Macs, only to find fewer and fewer customers using that platform while Windows users have been switching to other vendors for that application since it was not kept up so well. I don't like Microsoft very much and use as few of their products as I can, but like the recent cartoon about the "good news is that the TK2 problem is solved; the bad news is that the software belongs to Bill Gates." ________________________________________________________________________ Joseph Cain cain@quartz.gly.fsu.edu (850) 644-4014 (office) FAX (850) 644-4214 (850) 385-0227 (residence) http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/~cain