| From: | Kevin Twyman |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 20:57:01 |
| Subject: | Re: AmigaGuide |
Hello Richard,
On 06-Sep-00, you 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?
> 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.
Right, so it isn't something I'm doing wrong, then? ;-)
I tried to make some alterations by chopping the file to look more
like an amigaguide file that worked, but didn't get too far. I hadn't
heard of Heddley, either, not having had much to so with AG files, so
I'll grab that from you and investigate further.
> 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
Wow! No wonder I didn't have any luck!
> 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.
I was puzzled by the archive as well. I know it's old, but it actually
does manage to print a graphical family tree, as long as you feed it
the right information, as I tried one of the examples that came in the
archive.
Thanks for all your trouble, I shall have another bash at this one!
Regards,
Kevin - Est. 1949 http://www.theboyz.freeserve.co.uk
A man with an Amiga A4000T CyberStormPPC 604e/233
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