Charlie Hoffpauir wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:03:23 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber > <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > >>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:02:34 -0800 (PST), >>"leonardodiserpierodavinci@gmail.com" >><leonardodiserpierodavinci@gmail.com> declaimed the following in >>soc.genealogy.computing: >> >> >> >>>I installed PAF a few weeks ago and as far as I remember it did not >>>have the option to import GED files. >>>Thanks for the links. >> >> Really? >> >> PAF is, as I recall, produced by the people who, theoretically, >>/define/ what is a GEDCOM file... It would seem rather odd that it >>wouldn't import their own data transfer file... > > > Apparently Leonardo is commenting without really learning how to use > the programs that he has downloaded. I'm still waiting for the names > of the 3 programs he downloaded that will not import GEDCOM files. > > I must have tried about 20 different programs over the last 20 years, > and I really didn't find a single one that wouldn't read the basic > data from a GEDCOM. Not all did a decent job of it, but I was able to > get names, and bmd dates. > The Family Edge /DOS (TFE) in its freeware version did not do GED. In fact, IRRC, even the paid version required a utility to do GED. A freebie that didn't do GED was something called "Genealogy" -- OTOH, maybe what it didn't do was work on any of my boxes rather than not doing GED, since I never got to the point where I could even do dataentry with it. Eucalyptus a shareware out of Oz didn't do GED either. OTOH, all those programs have been defunct for more than 8 years, and I didn't even know you could still d/l 'em. Cheryl