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    1. Version 2.29 weirdness
    2. Joseph Cain
    3. Dear people, I had not had time to pay much attention to all the news mail I have been skimming over on 2.29 recently, but since I was on 2.27 I thought maybe it was time to upgrade. I removed the old program with Cleansweep so I could reinstall if needed, and installed from a copy of the individual disk files I downloaded. In the uninstall I kept the c:\program files\cftw directory and did not allow Cleansweep to zap it. I thus had a few files left including my own genealogy directory, now in one piece as suggested. The first thing I noticed was the error message "Lund fonts did not install properly...look for the four and copy from the cft-win program directory. (very loose translation)" Well, they are not on that directory, What I do find on the install files are the files Lunds.tt_,Lundsb.tt_,Lundsn.tt_ and Lundsnb.tt_, which appear to be the same files that I also see on the Cleansweep dump under the \Windows\fonts directory. Now there is no fonts directory at all. Are the ones from the 2.27 version identical to the ones with the tt_ suffix? Is there any problem in just copying in the tt_, renaming them with a ttf suffix? Is there any messing around with the registry that must be done? The second weirdness was that the little box that appeared after the install had the Cumberland Family tree icon with only the default Windows icon, not the one that remained on my tabletop with the little man. The uninstall icon was a garbage can...(must be a joke there somewhere). However, when I click on that new icon in the little box, I get the flashlight looking for the program, which I installed in c:\program files\cftw directory as before. I had no problem bringing the program into operation with the old icon still on the table top. Now for the real weirdness. When I right click on each of those icons and look at the properties, they are identical! When I "browse" to find the executable file the message pops up that it is writing fonts, after which it complains again that the fonts cannot be found. I gather that these fonts are for printing, right? (Of course it was easy to restore the icon on the program file line) The third anomaly may be that which appeared after I combined some data files using version 2.27: There are many duplicate entries for births, marraiges, and deaths. As far as I can see they are identical duplicates. Is there any automatic way to search and select for these? I tried the search command selecting on both full name and given names and for some reason seem not to get any hits using several selections. This is the first time I have tried that function.

    02/21/1998 09:56:49