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║ Information About PAFCTOOL - From File PAFCTOOL.INF ║
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║ PAF Review - Edition 93.3 - May 1993 ║
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Provides for the dumping of all PAF notes into an ASCII file,
which after processing with the editor of your choice can be
transferred back into the PAF notes file.
Version: 1.0? (no version given in documentation)
Author: Stephen A. Woods
Address:
BBS File Name: PAFCTOOL.ZIP
Software Type: Freeware
Fee: N/A
Read/Write: Reads/writes PAF Files (NOTES2 and INDIV2.DAT)
PAFCTOOL is a collection of "Free" PAF utilities and their C
source code that work with PAF version 2.2. Read the file LICENSE
for the conditions under which this software may be used.
At the moment there are three utilities in this collection of PAF
tools. It is the author's hope that providing the source code
will encourage others to create other "Free" utilities.
The utilities NOTEDUMP and NUPDATE are used together to dump all
the notes from a PAF database into a single ASCII file, allowing
them to be edited with any text editor, and then read back into
the PAF database, replacing the existing notes with the edited
notes.
The program ALIVE is a crude attempt to print out the birthdays of
everyone in a PAF database who is alive. This it does if the
person has no death date recorded and they are not too old. The
output can be used with the program PCAL to get birthdays printed
on the Postscript calendars made by PCAL. ALIVE could clearly be
modified to produce output suitable for other calendar programs
that may exist. ALIVE tries to guess what the last name of a
married woman is, putting the maiden name in brackets. If a woman
has been married several times, it may guess wrong as to which is
the current marriage, so may get the last name wrong. It does not
check marriage dates. (Of course it won't know when a woman has
not changed her name to her spouse.)