Hi Richard! Accepted. I personally do not believe I was expecting too much as questions of this type are common enough. However, I wanted people's honest opinion if I was expecting too much and you feel it was. Hopefully, we are all mature enough to accept our mistakes and learn from them. Next time, I will *try* to be a little more detailed. ;-) I had assumed that anyone who dealt with genealogy software would feel that being able to read gedcom files was basically a must (and they almost always do). Since that was the only real requirement I have, I didn't feel a need to list any details. Granted, being able to post them on my website would be nice, but I can parse the gedcom files enough to put something meaningful together. BTW, what's db2ftree? Does it convert a database to the ftree format? I did a search for it (believe it or not) and didn't find anything. (Did I misspellhttp://simonward.com/family/tree it?) I Check out Simon Ward's site and it looks interesting. I wanted to mention that one person in private called me a "horse's ass" and "jerk" for my second post and insisted my ego was bruised. Well, I asked for people to publically tell me whether I was wrong or not. Richard, you and others have stated you feel I was wrong and I accept that. No hard feelings. (and no brusied egos) I also publically apologize to John if he felt I was was attacking him in any way and he was just trying to help by pointing out where he thought the problem was (the spelling mistake). As I said, his message to me came first, and I didn't read the header, but I was just annoyed at the terseness of his reply. Regards to all. jimmo On Sunday 03 February 2002 16:13, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zondag 3 februari 2002 12:37, schreef James Mohr:
Hi All! Granted, I might have been a little terse and could have listed all of the features that I was looking for, the software I have seen and what I didn't like, and then explicitely asked for opinions. However, I **assumed** that most people are smart enough to figure out what is being asked without having to write a novel. (granted I could have made sure everything was spelled correctly in my original post, but flaming people for spelling mistakes is already a violation of netiquette.)
Was I really expecting too much?
Yes. What's the purpose of the software your looking for. Just storage, processing, making it public? Be more specific, otherwise the following answer is correct (though not usefull :) I use vi(m), a private database tool, db2ftree, db2birthday, gimp, netscape, konqueror, kmail, perl, etc. I use all of these to obtain information, create a family tree and to check that the family tree I maintain looks correct.
I can recommend the following software very much: http://simonward.com/family/tree
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