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_______ ____|__ | (R) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER ********************************************** * A D A M & E V E * ********************************************** ADAM & EVE v 3.0 <ASP> - Genealogy (Family relations). Lets you enter data about persons in your family: names, birth, death, occupation, and relationships. Many features included for convenient data-entry. Prints family-trees in different ways. Available in English, Dutch and German, other languages pending. Requires 80386, mouse and 192K. Recommended: color screen, hard disk. 1 Contents 2 Introduction 2 2.1 About shareware 2 2.2 About the author 3 2.3 About the system 3 3 How to install 4 4 The latest version 4 5 Definitions in this manual 4 6 Paging through the database 5 7 Pedigrees and Family-trees 6 8 Modifying 7 8.1 Introduction 7 8.2 Dates 7 8.3 Addresses 8 8.4 Copying names, cities, occupation, address 9 8.5 Equality of texts. 9 8.6 Changing legends 9 8.7 Changing sex 9 9 Addition 10 10 Checking 11 11 Searching 11 12 Combining 12 12.1 Introduction 12 12.2 Combining 13 12.3 Is there more to combine? 13 13 Deleting 13 14 Number-changing 14 15 Border-colours 14 16 Problems 14 17 Creation 15 18 GEDCOM import and export 15 19 Compression of the relations 15 20 Compression of the names 16 21 Merging two databases 16 22 Degree of relationship 16 23 Printing 17 24 More auxiliary programs 17 25 Filenames 17 26 History 18 2 Introduction 2.1 About shareware The genealogy-system Noach (Noah in English) has been named after the man who received in Genesis 9:1 the order to have numerous offspring. The system was made by Feico Nater, Beukweg 24, 7556 DE Hengelo, the Netherlands. The system is available as shareware. What is shareware? It is software which people pass around, but I, the author, retain the rights to it. Maybe you obtained the system from a bulletin- board and paid a few dollars for it, but I don't get a penny of it. I expect to be paid by you, because I make my living out of making shareware software. Therefore, if you like this system and use it, you are supposed to register by sending me US $39. Sorry, I can accept neither credit-cards nor US-checks. Outside Europe, the cheapest thing to do is sending cash. The address: Feico Nater Shareware, Beukweg 24, 7556 DE Hengelo, the Netherlands. When you register, advise the number which appears on the screen next to "unregis tered evaluation copy". Why register? Well, it costs you money. But if you do, I will advise you about further developments. Furthermore you will have the right to order later versions for only a few dollars and I will be willing to listen to your wishes. And if you don't like the system? Well, throw it away. But you will like shareware, because it does not let you pay a lot of money for something you dislike afterwards. Whether you register or not, you are encouraged to pass this system around. Give away copies to your friends. However, files with the extension .NAR should not be given away. The copies you pass around must be complete and unmodified, but file-compression is allowed. Any money you collect should be for diskette, packing, postage only and should not exceed five dollars. If someone registers who obtained this system from you, I will refund ten percent of the registration fee to you. 2.2 About the author I have been working with computers since 1970. I have completed a third-level degree in computer-science. I have been employed for many years in a big company, making defense- equipment, and my colleagues considered me the most skilled programmer among them. However, since the company went broke (Gorbachev was to blame, and he did a good job) I became unemployed and started woring as a shareware author. 2.3 About the system The system will probably run on every 80386 with a mouse. Memory-requirement is 192K. 3 How to install If the system has not yet been installed by an unarchive- program, the procedure isa as follows. Copy all files to a directory on your disk. Make this directory default. Usually the commands to do this are: C: MD \ADAM CD \ADAM COPY A:*.* 4 The latest version Version 1.4 includes the addition of addresses. If you have an older version read the chapter about conversion first. Version 1.6 includes multilingual legends. The language depends on the COUNTRY-setting in CONFIG.SYS. Languages available are English and Dutch. The format of the date is also according to European (DD-MM-YYYY) or American (MM-DD-YYYY) usage. Version 2.5 requires 80286 and 192 K. Version 2.7 requires 80386. ADAM&EVE Version 3.0 is very different, although the database is compatible. The mouse can be used for most functions, but the keyboard is still operative. These keys are no more operative: F3 to select children, and arrows up/down to mark part of a tree. Both have been replaced by scroll-bars. 5 Definitions in this manual Record. A `page' in the database. In the relation-file there are two types of records, namely one for every person, and one for every matrimony. Every record has a number. Selecting. If a record is selected, its data will appear on the upper half of the screen. These may be data of a person, but also of a matrimony. "Child" (between quotes). A matrimony is often considered as a child. If someone has been married twice and has three sons, then he has five "children". "Sibling" (between quotes). A matrimony of the parents is often included among the brothers and sisters. 6 Paging through the database As a demonstration we use the database named PIERSON. Start the program by entering ADAM and select the name PIERSON. This opens the data base and selects Hendrik Pierson. His data appear on the upper half of the screen. You also see the numbers and names of his parents. The lower half of the screen shows Hen- drik's wives and children. On the right-hand side of the screen you see the dates of birth and death. Sometimes there are two dates: this means that the true date is in between. If the date of death is not mentioned, then the person is still alive. Question-marks mean that the date is not known. To the left of the first name you see, usually, the age. The letter L indicates that this is the age. When the selected record is a matrimony, you see the length of time that the matrimony lasted (until either divorce or death). Sometimes you see something else in this place. On the lower half you see the children and consorts of Hendrik Pierson. With the children you see dates of birth and death, with the consorts the dates of marriage and divorce. The consorts stand out by a blinking heart. The list is compiled by date, so you see a chronological report of Hendrik's marriages and children. At first showing sons, daughters and consorts together seems like a strange mixture, but if you get used to it you will find that it is very useful. To the left of the children you see the numbers of the father (Hendrik Pierson), the mother and of the child itself. If there are more than thirteen children and consorts, then you will see the first thirteen. You can see more by clicking the scroll-bar on the right of the screen. Click the name of the father, this selects Hendrik Pierson's father. Press Esc to return to Hendrik Pierson. Click the name of his mother to select the mother. Press Esc again to return to Hendrik Pierson. Selecting a child or matrimony of Hendrik Pierson is just as simple: just click the child or matrimony. To immediately select a partner, click his/her number on the left. If there are more than thirteen "children", then the mouse can only reach the first thirteen. To get further you click the scroll-bar on the right. If you select a matrimony, you will not immediately see the partner on the upper half of the screen. A blinking heart indicates that it is a matrimony. The lower half of the screen shows the from that matrimony. To select the consort click his/her name. If you want to select a partner immediately, click his/her number. With the mouse you can select a number of brothers and sisters in sequence. First you select the father or mother. Turn ScrollLock on. Now select one of the children. The lower half of the screen does not change. Therefore you can now select a sibling. The data on the lower half of the screen remain there until you select a record with ScrollLock turned off. With the mouse you can (within certain limits) immediately select an ancestor or descendant. See the next chapter. To stop click the word Exit in the menu-bar on top. 7 Pedigrees and Family-trees Release 2.3 brought the possibility to display a pedigree (tree of ancestors) or family-tree (tree of descendants) on the screen. Click the word Tree in the menu-bar and select the kind of tree. With the mouse you can select any person, with Esc or any other key the list disappears. Afterwards, you can recall the same list again, with updates, independent of the selected person. These lists show at least four letters of the first name. More letters are shown when there is space. If you click Bigger or Smaller, the list will be redisplayed with less or more letters for the names. Of course, longer names leave less space to display all persons. Usually the screen is to narrow to show the entire tree, so there are scroll-bars to shift the tree sideways. Note that there is a scroll-bar on every line. The general rule is: the leftmost name on the clicked line is removed (or a name is added on the left) and the display of descendants (family-tree) or ancestors (pedigree) area is adapted. In principle, the rest does not change (although it may happen). Only the given names are shown. If you want to know more about a person in the tree, click his name with the mouse, and use the menu-bar to redisplay the same tree. Lines show the relations between persons on the screen, and also with persons beyond the edges of the screen. Sometimes two persons occur twice in the tree. If this happens in the same generation, then they are shown only once, and lines may clash. 8 Modifying 8.1 Introduction If you want to change the data of the selected record, then you click Modify in the menu-bar. You can also start modifying by clicking the field you want to modify (but not the number or the parents). If you have a CGA- or VGA-screen, then the blue border will be red, to remind you that you are now modifying. You can now change the name, place and date of birth and death, the occupation and the address. You can also change the numbers of the parents, the names of the parents are inserted automati- cally. Sorry, you cannot change the sex. A field is usually terminated with Enter (most function-keys do the same). This will bring you to the next field. The up-arrow brings you to the previous field (which is not always higher on the screen). With the mouse you can select another field immediately (even the parents). The left and right arrows move the cursor within a field. The mouse can also do this. When all modifications are finished click Save. You can also click Cancel to cancel all modifications. Modifying a matrimony goes likewise. The main difference is that a matrimony has no name and no occupation. The final date of a matrimony is only entered in case of divorce. During modifying you will not see the age. Instead you see to the left of the first name a sequence-number, preceded by the letter N. This number can be used if someones birth- or wedding- date is not known, and with twins, to force sequence. The maximum value in this field is 63. The length of names, occupations, addresses is limited to 1000 characters. If you exceed the width of the screen, the text will shift sideways. During selection you will only see the first 48 or 70 characters. Accented letters are possible! Enter the accent first, then the letter. Available combinaties are: all vowels (a e i o u) with acute, grave, circonflexe, Umlaut, trema or diaeresis, c with cedille (enter ^ and c), German sz (enter ^ and s), n with tilde. If you want an apostrophe type a space after the apostrophe. Sorry, to save space, capital letters are not supported. Some data will be checked for correctness. Parents must have the right sex and dates must match. Some of these checks occur immediately, so you cannot leave a field until a correct value has been entered, and some checks do not occur until you click Save. In both cases: remove the error-message with Esc before you go on. For more checks, see the chapter on checking. 8.2 Dates If you do not know when someone was born, died, married or divorced, press F10, the date-fields will be filled with question-marks. If someone is still alive, or if a matrimony was never divorced, press F9. If you only know that someone was born or died between two given dates, that's no problem. You can enter two dates! If you know that someone was born or died before or after a given date, enter that date and press F10 (question-marks) for the other date. If you know the date exactly, enter the same date twice. You can use F11 for this. The second date should not be earlier than the first. For recent events, you can press F1 (today), F2 (yesterday) etcetera through F7. Of course this requires that your compu- ter's clock be correctly set. Pressing F8 displays a calendar of the year in the current field. This is particularly useful if you know that someone was born three weeks befort whitsuntide, for festival dates are indicated on the calendar. PageUp, PageDown, and arrows display another year. With the mouse you can select any date. If you do not want to select a date press Esc to remove the calendar. Examples: date unknown F10 * F10 * after jan 3 1840 01-03-1840 F10 * before sep 12 1860 F10 * 09-12-1860 in 1850 or 1851 01-01-1850 12-31-1851 still alive F9 + F9 + exactly oct 3 1960 10-03-1960 F11 ** Notes: * shows question-marks. ** shows the same date when modifying, no date when selecting. + shows only two hyphens. A date must be correct. If you enter an incorrect date, then it will be changed into another date, without error-message. What the other date is, is not always predictable. If you want to enter the last day of a month, try 00 in the next month. 03-00-1988 will be 02-29-1988. If you receive the message: second date is earlier than first, the program means the first and second birth-date, or the first and second death-date. The cursor goes to the dates which must be corrected. The built-in calendar uses Julian dates from March 4 A.D. through October 1582 and Gregorian dates from October 1582. Dates before 4 A.D. are not displayed reliably. 8.3 Addresses The line above the menu-line is intended for the address. This line has two parts: on the left goes the street name, on the right goes the city name. It is recommended to use the right part for the city name only. This saves space in the database if the same city name is also in use as birth- or death-place of any person. Other data, like zip-codes, phone-numbers, go on the left. You may give all members of a family the same address, it takes no extra space in the database (provided the addresses are exactly the same). This can be done with the copy-function, described below. The address-line is intended for the present address of living persons, not for historical data. Therefore there is no possibil- ity for storing several addresses per person. 8.4 Copying names, cities, occupation, address Often you will see that someone has the same first or last name, birth- or death-place, occupation or address as a close relative, or that birth- and death-place of a person are the same. When you add a person, the last name, birth-place and address will often be entered automatically. Where this is insufficient try the following procedure. Put the cursor on the field you want to enter and click the arrow on the right. This will display data from the parents, the cildren and the siblings, from which you can make a selection. If you don't want to select any, click the name on the top, which is the same as the original name. 8.5 Equality of texts. A text is the name of a person, occupation, city or address. Texts are stored in the database. If the same text occurs several times, it will be stored only once. Therefore you will save space if texts are truely equal. Do not mix names like "Denver, Colo" and "Denver (Colo)" and "Denver" and "Denver Colorado". It wastes storage. This is the reason why the city name has a separate position in the address-line, the same city name might occur in another address or as birth- or death-place. The copy-function above makes it easy to make texts exactly equal. 8.6 Changing legends In church-registers you will often not find somebody's birth- or death-date, but only the date of baptism or burial. With the cursor on the city-name press F8 to change the legend. These are the alternatives: born or baptized died or buried married or registered divorced or separated father or adoptive father mother or adoptive mother. 8.7 Changing sex I said it: the sex of persons cannot be changed. The structure of the database is greatly based on the sex of persons, and changing this would cause great problems. Changing would be permissible with persons who have no children and who are not married, but the program offers no possibilities for it. However it can be done in this way: Delete the record, by removing all names, all parents and all children and pressing Ctrl Delete. Add the record again, with the right sex. It will have the highest number in the databse. Combine the new record with the deleted record (see the chapter Combining). This leaves the number eventually unchanged. There only remains an empty record at the end of the database. If you like, you can remove it with Other | Compress relations. 9 Addition Imagine you want to put a relation (not a matrimony) between two persons in the database. For example you want to indicate that 234 is a son of 456. Then you select 234, click Modify and enter 456 as the father or mother. That's all. But if you want to add a person to the database, you need the procedure described below. You also need this if you want to put a matrimony between two persons in the database. First of all select the person to whom you want to add a relation. Now click Add and select Father, Mother, Son, Daughter or Consort. Adding a father is only possible if the selected person has not yet got a father. A person will be added to the database and you can modify the data. The last name will be copied, but can be changed. Adding a mother. The procedure is the same, but of course the last name will not be copied. Adding a son or daughter. At this point the added son or daughter has only one parent, it is up to you to enter the other parent. The address and the birth-place will be copied, (the birth-place from the parent's home-place). If the known parent is a man, the last name will also be copied. It is much nicer to add a son or daughter while a matrimony (with a blinking heart) is selected: in that case both parents are known. The last name will be copied from the father, the address and the birth-place from the mother. Adding a matrimony. There are two possibilities: both partners are already in the database, or either must be added. Select one partner. If the other is already in the database, make sure you know his/her number. Click Add | Consort. Enter city and date of the wedding. Note that one consort has been filled in already. If you click Save now, the program will start adding the other consort. If, however, you enter the number of the other consort before you click Save, then the other consort will not be added. While adding a matrimony, a message om the bottom-line will prompt you what to do. Adding is irrevocable! It is therefore not possible to cancel adding. If you put a matrimony between two persons who are both already in the database, then it is important that you enter the number of the other consort while entering the data of the matrimony, lest the other partner be added. Do you want to remove a record? Remove all its relations ("children" and parents) or consorts and remove the names as well. Then press Ctrl Delete. This marks the record as `empty', but it will not be reused. The functions Other | Compress relations and Other | Combine will reuse it. 10 Checking If you click Other | Check then the program will check the correctness of dates. Checking starts with the selected record and continues in sequence. When an error is found, a message apears on the bottom- line, and the offending record will be selected. The message often begins with the number of another record, and ends with an instruction. For instance: number 1322 is selected, and the bottom-line reads: 1333 two children within 8 months, press F2. This means that 1322 en 1333 are siblings born within a short time (but not twins). If you follow the instruction, F2 will select the mother and her children. Only the first date will be checked. The second date will be ignored. Checking will be on: age of deceased persons (max 125 years); age of living persons (born max 125 year ago, provided the omputer's clock has been set correctly; age when a child is born (min 15); age at wedding (min 15); age-difference between siblings of one mother (less than 2 or more than 300 days). When there are no errors, the program will select the last record, without an error-message. After correcting an error, select Other - Check to find the next error. If you do not correct the error, press Page Down first, followed by Other - Check. 11 Searching Click Search use the search-function. A screen appears that is similar to the modifying screen, but the border (if available) is yellow rather than red. Enter the data to search for and click Start. Searching starts at the selected record and continues to the end of the database. The first satisfactory record will be selected. If this is not the record you want, you can continue searching by clicking Search and Start, but also, more conveniently, by pressing F7 twice. It is sufficient to enter the first letters of the names you look for. So entering Leo will also find Leonard and Leopold. If you enter dates, the program will search for persons which were born or died between the dates you entered. Changing the legend with F8 is possible but useless. The search-function does not distinguish birth- and baptism-dates, neither death- and burial-dates. Furthermore, the search- function will find matrimonies as well as persons. 12 Combining 12.1 Introduction Sooner or later you will find that one person occurs twice in the database. This will happen in particular if you have combined two databases into one (with Other | Compress names). Therefore there is a function to combine two records to one. Combining can only be done if the data in the two records agree. What does that mean? Look at the example below. number: 8 name: meier bert born: amsterdam 08-03-1845 12-31-1850 died: 09-09-1890 12-31-1890 occ: blacksmith father: 28 mother: number: 90 name: meyer bertus born: amsterdam 11-01-1849 08-08-1855 died: hoorn 01-01-1910 12-31-1910 occ: father: 29 mother: 38 Two records, number 8 en number 90, for the same person. The first and last names disagree, for Meier is not then same as Meyer and Bert is not the same as Bertus. The birth-cities agree, for both are Amsterdam. The death-cities agree too, for 8 has no known death-city. (If somebody answers "I don't know" to a question, you cannot say that his answer disagrees with another person's answer.) The occupations agree, for 90 has no known occupation. The fathers disagree, the mothers agree. The birth-dates agree, we can conclude that it must be between 11-01-1849 and 12-31-1850. The death-date of number 8 is before december 1890 and of 90 after january 1910, and that is a disagreement. Combining data which agree is a simple matter. If the dates disagree, then the program elects the ultimate dates, in this case 09-09-1890 12-31-1910. For the other disagreements your help is wanted. Disagreeing sex: If the sex disagrees, there will be no combination! Disagreeing parents. If the parents disagree, we must conclude that they are the same person. In the example above, number 8 and number 90 are the same person, their fathers are 28 and 29, so 28 and 29 are also the same person. The program requires that 28 and 29 will be combined first. Of course, this also requires that the grandparents agree. If there are many disagreeing ancestors, combining can take a long while. But at any time you can stop (with Esc) and continue the next day. Disagreeing names, cities and occupation: The program shows the data ans asks you to select one of them. And the children. Children always disagree, it is impossible that two persons of the same sex have the same children. When combining, all children will be put together, and this may produce the same children several times, which should also be combined. 12.2 Combining Select one of the records you want to combine and click Other | Combine. If you have a CGA- or VGA-screen, then the border will be magenta, indicating you are combining. Enter the number of the other record. This record will be displayed on the lower half of the screen. If the parents of the two persons disagree, the program will prompt you to press F1 or F2 to invoke the fathers or mothers. When the parents have been combined the original records will be displayed again. If the parents of the two records do not disagree, then you are prompted to press F12 and start combining. If data in one record are empty, then the program will automatically assume the data from the other record. If data disagree, they will be displayed with a blinking arrow in front. You can move the arrow with any key and if it points to the desired text press Enter. You can also make your selection with the mouse, but only for the field with the blinking arrow. (I am not satisfied with this user-interface. Have you any suggestions? Tell me!) If dates agree, the program will make its best assumption. If dates disagree, the program retains the ultimate dates. Eventually the combined data are displayed. Press any key. Did you combine the records you wanted to combine or were they ancestors? In the former case combining will now be finished, in the latter case combining continues with the younger generation until the original records have been combined. The combined record will have the number of the record that was on the upper half of the screen, which is the record you selected first. The record on the lower half will be `empty'. There is one exception to this: see the chapter on number-changing. Combining can be interrupted at any time with Esc. 12.3 Is there more to combine? Combining puts all children of the two persons together. The result could be that all children are mentioned twice, which is not intended. If you press Other | Search Records then the program will try to find such occurences. The combining-function starts automatically and can be interrupted with Esc. 13 Deleting To delete a record remove all names and relations. There should be no more parents or "children". Then press Ctrl Delete. The record is now `empty'. In stead of the sex you see a =. The record will not be reused again and you cannot enter data in it. To reuse the record, see the chapter on number-changing or function Other | Compress relations. 14 Number-changing It is possible to change the number of a record, provided the new number is available i.e. it must be an `empty' record. If you combine (see the function combining) the `empty' record with another record (in any order), then the data from the other record will be moved to the `empty' record. 15 Border-colours Border-colours are only available with CGA or VGA and colour- screen. Blue: selection Red: modifying and adding Magenta: combining Yellow: searching 16 Problems Q. I selected someone, but his children do not appear on the lower half of the screen. A. Toggle ScrollLock off and select again. Q. I want to select other persons and leave the lower half of the screen unchanged. A. Toggle ScrollLock on. Q. It says `second date earlier than first'. A. Press Esc. The cursor goes to a date. Press Enter. The cursor goes to another date. These two dates are conflicting. Q. I cannot enter a name. A. The namefile is full, maximum is 1M, 1048576 bytes. Run Other | Compress Names. This creates a new database, named COMPRESS, which is probably smaller. Q. I want legends in another language and I do not like the format of the dates. A. You can choose English MM-DD-YYYY or Dutch DD-MM-YYYY. The choice is made by the COUNTRY-statement in CONFIG.SYS. Read your DOS-manual. A few messages are always in English. If CONFIG.SYS has a country-setting other than 1 or 31, then you must appropiately change the names of the .NAR and .NAS files. 17 Creation Of course it must be possible to create a new database. Start ADAM and click Create. The program asks for the name of the databse and creates it. The new database has one record, a man, without name, and with the number 1. Now start NOACH, select the new data base, click Modify and enter a man's data. Then add more persons. Remember: the first person cannot be a woman. 18 GEDCOM import and export To exchange data with other programs you need the GEDCOM- protocoll. ADAM&EVE can therefore handle GEDCOM-files. These files have the extension .GED. To create a GEDCOM-file, click Other | Export. To convert a GEDCOM-file to a database for ADAM&EVE, first copy the GEDCOM-file to your hard disk. Then start ADAM and click the name of the GEDCOM-file. 19 Compression of the relations Any `empty' records in the .REL file will not be reused. Compression is possible by selecting Other | Compress Relations. This function modifies only the .REL file. It searches for `empty' records. The record which is last in the file is moved there. So this function changes the numbering of the records somewhat. If you enter the DIR command, then you will see that the size of the relation-file has not decreased. The freed space is not released. But if you add records afterwards, then the relation- file will not grow. You can run Other | Compress Names, this will result in a smaller relation-file. 20 Compression of the names If you have made many modifications the .NAM and .ADR files will be much greater than needed. They can be compressed with the function Other | Compress Names. This function rebuilds the entire database. This function creates a new database named COMPRESS. This database COMPRESS should not exist when you start the function. When the function is completed you can exit Adam&Eve and REName the three files to the name of your choice. Warning: the file COMPRESS.REL is usually the same size (perhaps a bit smaller) but certainly not equal to the original .REL-file. If you use one .REL-file with the other .NAM or .ADR-file, then you will have unpredictable results. 21 Merging two databases If you want to join two databses into one, then this can also be done with the function Other | Compress Names. For if the database COMPRESS exists, the function will add its output to it. It should now be clear that COMPRESS should not exist if Other | Compress Names is only used to compress a database. 22 Degree of relationship After creating a large database you will find a person and wonder whether he belongs in your database, and what relation he has to the other persons in your database. Noach contains a function to answer these questions. Select Other | Degree of Relationship. The selected person will now have relation-number 0. His parents and children will have number 1, his consort, grandchildren and grandparents 2, is parents- in-law, uncles and aunts 3, etcetera. This takes a few seconds, but it is muuuch faster than the auxiliary program which was shipped with older versions of Noach. You see now that the ages have disappeared, and instead you see the degree of relationship, preceded by the letter G. For example: if a person has degree 12, and his father 11, you know that the father is nearer number 0. What's more, persons with a lower degree of relationship are marked by an inverted number (e.g. black on blue in stead of blue on black). Therefore you can page through the databse by clicking the inverted number, until you reach the person who was selected at the moment that you chose Other | Degree of Relationship. This person has degree zero. If there is no degree of relationship with someone, then this person has no relations to the person who got number 0. To remove the degree of relationship select Other | Degree of Relation again. 23 Printing The selection Other | Print lets you print data. The program asks these questions: Pedigree, Family Tree of a single person's data. Long of short. If you select Long, the program will yield for every person the same data as you have seen on the screen. If you select Short, it will yield only the names. By order of generation or structure. Printer port or file on hard disk. Width of desired output. These questions van be answered with the keyboard or with the mouse. The output can be sent to the printer, but also to a file in the default directory. This file can be printed with the MSDOS- command PRINT. If you like it, you can modify it with a text- editor. Caution: do not output to the COM-port to which your mouse has been connected. 24 More auxiliary programs Tell me your wishes. 25 Filenames You can have as many databases as you like. A database consists of three files, with the same name, and the extension .REL, .ADR en .NAM. In general you are advised to put the three files together on one directory. But if you have no fixed disk, this may not be possible. To allow this, you make a file with your favorite editor (for instance EDLIN) with three lines: the full names of the files. The extensions must be .NAM, .ADR and .REL. Thee contents of the file could be: A:\FAMILY.NAM B:\FAMILY.REL C:\FAMILY.ADR Then choose the name of this file, the extension is .USC. Click the name of this file when you start ADAM&EVE. The order of the lines in the .USC-file is immaterial, but the extensions must be correct. 26 History Release 1.0 october 1990 Release 1.1 november 1990 Leap-year error corrected. Hardware-cursor made invisible. Length of names limited to 1000 (used to be 70). Characters can be removed (with Del-key). After every modification the files are closed and opened again, to protect against system-crashes. Birth and death-cities display only 48 characters. This used to be 70 during modification, overlapping the dates. F3 of a matrimony shows the children from that matrimony. The lower half of the screen also displays the numbers of the parents. It is permitted for one date to have an unknown value. This way one can indicate that someone was born before or after a given date. Screening of dates. COMPNAM works much faster. Start modifying with the mouse. Degree of relationship and age and sequence-number moved on the screen. Combining. Release 1.2 january 1991 PRCARD DATCHK Immediate display of children when ScrollLock is off. Copying names, occupations, cities of parents and children. Inserting characters (with Insert-key). Check for full files. Usage of hardware-cursor. Variable legends: baptized, buried, separated, adoptive parents. The mouse will be invisible until it is moved. Release 1.3 The comma can no longer be used for ç and ß. This turned out to be awkward, In stead use ^ or ~. Patch for INT 16h function 10h. This function made some computers crash. Release 1.4 april 1991 PRASC and PRDESC. Adresses. The program finds the type of the video-adapter, the video- segment and the colours. The installation-program will therefore seldom be needed. Installation-program integrated with main-program. The .USC file contains only the filenames, with possibility for disk and path. This file must be made with an editor. Second search-function added. Release 1.5 may 1991 Printprograms PRASC, PRDESC and PRCARD combined to PRNOACH. Search for records which may need to be combined (with Ctrl F12). Release 2.0 october 1991 Documentation translated into English. Mulitilingual legends. Modification for zero digit on some VGA-cards. Release 2.1 december 1991 Very extensive helptext on screen during update (suggested by Henk Hijdra) ScrollLock turned off when program starts (suggested by Henk Hijdra) GEDCOM conversion Combined conversion programs into one Some bugfixes Release 2.2 january 1992 F1 through F7 for recent events Calendar display with festival days Release 2.3 january 1992 Display of pedigree and immediate selection of an ancestor. Release 2.4 february 1992 Bug fix (current date in English language) Renewed search-function Release 2.5 july 1992 Names which do not fit on the screen will run sideways. 80286 and 192K required. Release 2.6 october 1992 User-friendly selection of database and text-file. 80386 required. Release 2.7 september 1993 Bug-fix in search-function. Bug-fix in Gedcom-import. Release 2.8 november 1993 Bug-fix with name-files greater then 512K. ADAM&EVE Release 3.0 january 1994 Different colors for men, women and matrimonies More choices of colors. Drop-down menus Extended use of the mouse. Copying data from related persons using a drop-down list. Auxiliary programs integrated in the main program.