| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 11:16:50 |
| Subject: | Re: AmigaGuide |
Hello Kevin
On 05-Sep-00, Kevin Twyman wrote:
> Ever hopeful of finding a program to print "graphical" Family Trees, I
> downloaded ftree0.3lha from Aminet, but the Amigaguide doc seems to be
> in a format not recognised on my machine.
>
> Is there an earlier version/standard of Amigaguide docs, and can they
> be converted?
Normally when an AmigaGuide database fails to load it's usually because with
O/S 3.5's version of Multiview there needs to be a blank line or two at the
end of the file or it fails to load. I've no idea why but it does. The other
reason is that the string "@database" is not at the begining of the file.
This can happen with badly written Guides or those intended as a seperate
sub-section for another guide.
I've just taken a look at the file in question and there's several things
wrong with it, nothing to do with an older version of AmigaGuide being needed
as I've checked and it doesn't work on that either.
Take a look at the file ":ftree/guide/RCS/ftree.guide,v" in a text viewer and
you'll see that the begining of the file has loads of odd junk in it and the
where there should be single "@"'s there's two "@@". Even Heddley wont load
it, and that's fairly tolerant of faults in guides.
The best I can get is by loading it into a text editor (CygnusED in my case),
chop off the first part, to line 41 where it says "@@@Database", change this
to "@database", do a search and replace option replacing "@@" with @ and save
it out, then load it into Heddley V1.20� and save it out again. The guide
then loads into Multiview but there's still several broken links and some odd
bits in there. But at least it works.
Using the latest version of Heddley V1.20� (available from my site) you can
fix these broken links and check for any errors.
I really have no idea how the ftree.guide file got the name "ftree.guide,v" or
why it's written the way it is. I suspect that it's been converted badly by
something in the past. Also worth noting that it's a beta from 1994, so
anything's possible.
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