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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!