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║ Information About READPAF - From File READPAF.INF ║
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║ PAF Review - Edition 93.2 - April 1993 ║
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Demonstrates reading PAF files from Turbo Pascal for programmers.
Version: 1.0
Author: Joseph R. Wood
Address: 5705 Laurel Ave., Raytown, MO 64133
Version Date: December 1989
BBS File Name: RPAF.ZIP, READPAF.ZIP
Software Type: Freeware
Fee: N/A
Read/Write: Read only of PAF data files
READPAF is an abbreviated version of program FR2SDF (see PRNTCARD
program - FR2SDF is included there). It is intended to
demonstrate how to use Turbo Pascal to read PAF files. If you
intend to write programs which access PAF, it is strongly
recommended that you send $5.00 to:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Family History Department
50 East North temple Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
and ask for "Personal Ancestral File Family Records Data Structure
Description". This document gives the full technical details on
the data structures used in PAF. This information will be needed
in order to expand this program and read all the data in all the
PAF files.
READPAF only reads the INDIV2 and NAME2 files of PAF. It then
writes a file with the person's RIN number, all four name fields,
the sex field, older sibling RIN, own marriage MRIN, and parent's
marriage MRIN. It does not convert the dates, (which is a real
experience!) or access the rest of the data in the INDIV2, MARR2,
and NOTE2 files. This is left, as they say, as an exercise for
the reader.
This program requires at least version 4.0 of Turbo Pascal. It
should work with later versions, but has only been tested with
version 4.0.