HISTORY.TXT file - Family Scrapbook release notes - 10/16/91 Versions are in recent-to-oldest order. v1.06 Released on 10/16/91 Bug fix - The record stacks are now adjusted when a record is deleted. This would only cause problems if you trid to Alt-B (backup) to a deleted record. Change - I will no longer use LZEXE on the EXE files. A user had trouble with the only version the used it (v1.05). I don't know if this was the culprit. I'm just eliminating the unknowns... I hated to drop it...it's a great program. Change - The program will no longer automatically create new data files if the configuration file (CONFIG.DAT) is missing. It will inform you of the situation and ask you what to do. There is also an option to create a new configuration file without creating the other files. Bug fix - The sorted lists, persons by baptisms, christenings, and place codes, will now properly exit to the menu if you aborted it from reporting to the screen. Bug fix - The program won't mess up now if you decide to jump around in the person database while temporarily out of the family database (F8-edit or F9-add person). Bug fix - Gedcom: The strip-blank-lines-from-notes function now works correctly. v1.05 Released on 9/26/91 Change - I LZEXE'd the INSTALL.EXE, REINDEX.EXE, FSGED.EXE, and PRINTER.EXE files so that they would take up less HD space. Change - The tiny tafel generator will now print the word "Unknown" for any birth place that is not known. New feature - Gedcom: I added a Gedcom File Preview feature. Change - I made some internal changes that should speed up some of the search windows (F6). Bug fix - Gedcom: Fixed a minor problem with importing month-year only dates. Bug fix - Fixed the problem with the Family Reports and Family Group Sheets not printing notes under certain conditions. v1.04 Released on 9/16/91 Change - Person Database, Person Select Screens: The marriage counter has been changed so that it differentiates between marriages and family records where the persons did not marry. New feature - Blank Charts/Forms: You may now specify the printer's left margin. Change - The internal field I/O routines have been altered to allow direct foreign character input. This makes Family Scrapbook more usable by those users (European, French-Canadian, etc) whose computers are setup for extended country-specific information and code-page switching. Change - The Foreign Characters list now includes the entire extended ASCII set (#128-#255). Many non-alphabetic characters are now in this list, but the change was necessary because these characters can be changed by loading country-specific info and by code-page switching. Change - I made a few minor internal changes that should make the program look a little better in monochrome. Change - Tiny Tafel Generator: I increased the note lines in the submitter info to 3 and made each line longer (66 chars). Bug fix - Gedcom: Cleaned up the export family screen. It was getting messed up after doing an export. New feature - Gedcom: The place code export feature has been extended to include date codes. These codes can also be imported. Bug fix - Gedcom: It can now import single-digit-day dates where the text was shifted to the left one space in the gedfile. This makes it more compatible with other programs. Change - The Family Database, Family Reports, FGS's, and search windows now show a person's Title/Nickname if there is one. New feature - I added a Family Record stack so that you can use Alt-B to back up to a previous family after jumping around with Alt-F, Alt-M, F6, and F7. ...just like in the Person Database. Change - Altered all of the Spouse windows so that they now display the family record numbers as well. Bug fix - Fixed the problem with the family database allowing deleted persons to be enterd as a spouse. Bug fix - The Family Reports: Print All With Same Name was working only intermittantly. v1.03 Released on 8/22/91 New feature - Family charts will now put a ? next to a birth year or year of death that has a date code of A, B, F, or ?. Also, the charts will no longer print that lonely dash " - " if no dates are known. Bug fix - Dates are no longer chopped off by the ahnentafel charts. I also cleaned up some of the bad English (i.e. "born on about 1960"). Bug fix - Killed the problem with the reindex routine that was trashing the Passenger List file. New feature - Family Database: Added an Alt-F command for jumping to the family record where a spouse was a child. New feature - Gedcom can now import and export place codes. Bug fix - Installer: It was displaying a disk's size instead of the amount of free space. Bug fix - I finally killed the gremlin that was causing the field jump-if-full inconsistancy problems. Change - Gedcom I/O: I altered the gedcom import routines so that they would read the surnames from a gedfile that was created with the Roots III genealogy program. I really don't think this was a bug on my part since I followed the Gedcom specs and the Roots people did not. Bug fix - The person delete routine was removing the wrong spouse from the person's family record. v1.02 Released on 8/7/91 Bug fix - Family group sheets were not printing the correct mother for each spouse. Bug fix - Relationship reports were not printing all of a person's descendants. It would stop searching after the children. Feature removed - Option to send Person Report: all persons of same surname, to the screen. It wasn't working correctly and it wasn't such a great option anyway since it didn't look exactly like the printed version...so I killed it. Feature removed - Option to send Family Report: all families of same surname, to the screen. See last entry... Feature removed - Option to send Family Group Sheets: all families of same surname, to the screen. Ditto... New feature - Person Database: Added a help screen for the sex field. New feature - Added an option to the Relationship Report for selecting birth or current names. New feature - Added an option to the Relationship Report to print record numbers. New feature - Added an option to the Person Reports to print notes. New feature - Added an option to the Family Reports to print notes. New feature - Added an option to the Family Group Sheets to print notes. New feature - Added an option to the Family Group Sheets for selecting birth or current names. Change - Altered the width of the Family Charts so that older printers that do not support more than 132 cpl could print them. Change - Altered the left print margin of several reports (almost all blank forms) so that some older printers could print them. Change - Blank chart: Relationship Chart: Altered the chart's width so that some older printers could print them. Change - Altered the data structure of the Printer Driver Database so that it would be more versatile and thereby support more printers. New feature - Printer Driver Database: Added an Alt-A (ASCII Input) command because I got tired of looking at ASCII charts to determine what a character's decimal value was. Change - Printer drivers: For those printers that cannot support 20 cpi mode, I entered the 17 cpi mode commands in their place. If the printer is a wide-carriage, satisfactory results might be achieved - I hope.... New feature - Printer drivers: Added support for the HP Laserjet, Epson LQ-850/950/1050, Toshiba P351SX, Mannesmann Tally MT180, Citizen 180-D, Citizen GSX-140, and Okidata 320 series printers. Comment - Because of the changes to some reports, some users of older versions of Family Scrapbook will notice a difference in the print margins. This is a side-effect of trying to support other printers. I'm still trying to scheme up a way to better handle margins... Comment - Many of the printer drivers were based on information out of printer manuals and not from actually testing them on the printers themselves. Please contact me if any problems are found. v1.01 Released on 7/18/91 This is the first official release of the program. v1.00 Never officially released. This is a Beta test version that was never supposed to be distributed. One of my testers didn't follow instructions. The filename is F-57.ZIP and it is an unfinished copy of the program. It also has several bugs, some of which could scramble your data. If you see it, DO NOT USE IT and encourage those who have it to ERASE it!