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║ Information About GED-FIX - From File GED-FIX.INF ║
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║ PAF Review - Edition 93.3 - May 1993 ║
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Validates and corrects errors in GEDCOM files.
Version: 1.0
Author: Larry Maddocks
Address: Knowledge Software Systems, 935 E. Best Ave.
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
Version Date: August 1992
BBS File Name: GEDFX.ZIP
Support BBS: (801) 466-5374
Software Type: Demo (will only work with very small file)
Fee: $15 to obtain fully functioning version
Read/Write: Reads input GEDCOM file/writes new output GEDCOM
GED-Fix was created for people who shouldn't be editing their own
corrupted GEDCOM files. GED-Fix makes four passes over the GEDCOM
file, deleting syntax errors (garbage), grammar errors, and
finding and correcting hanging pointers. If an individual is
pointing to a FAM record which does not point back, it will when
GED-Fix is done. If an individual points to a non-existent FAM
record, GED-Fix will create the needed FAM record.
The author says he got his experience to write this program while
working as a contractor for the Family History Center at the LDS
Church, where the GEDCOM file format was developed. His job was
to write software that would test the integrity of GEDCOM files.
He later developed GED-Fix to actually FIX bad GEDCOM files.
This demo of GED-Fix will only work with GEDCOM files of no more
than 6,500 bytes. The author states that this is intended to
allow you to evaluate the program with the TEST.GED file that
comes with GED-Fix. You must pay the fee of $15 in order to get
a copy of GED-Fix that will verify and repair larger GEDCOM files.