>I have a question for all of you. Recently I received TWO supposed >GEDCOM files that were in .RTF format!!!!! Have any of the rest of >you had problems with GEDCOM's that you have received from users >of FTM or other programs? I, for one, wish those companies wouldn't >make those non-standard options available for users of their products. >Most new users just aren't computer-literate enough to know not to >use the non-standard formats. Yes, I just saw a wierd GEDCOM produced by FTM that spelled out entirely all the Standard GEDCOM tags! Easy to read if you're wanting to simply look at a GED file but pretty useless for anyone. Someone gets a hold of this and wonders why CFT-Win can't read it. I agree! It is a nuisance for us software developers to be explaining away why our programs can't read other company's psuedo-GED files. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com