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From: Douglas Burbury <>
Subject: TMG-L: Re: Running TMG in Japanese Windows environment
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 10:57:41 +1000


> Douglas Burbury wrote:
> >I recently installed the Japanese version of Windows 98 on my home machine.
> >
> >The trouble is, TMG (Ver 2.0) no longer runs.

<snip>

> Using a text editor such as NOTEPAD, edit the CONFIG.FPW file such that it
> looks like this:
> TITLE=The Master Genealogist
> MVCOUNT=3000
> CODEPAGE=AUTO
> TIME=20000
>
> Somehow the file got some extra entries. Be sure to save the file in
> straight text (ASCII) if you use a word processor.
>
> Hope this helps -

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem.

As the information message states that it has modified the CONFIG.FPW file, what appears to be happening is that each time TMG is started, the following lines are appended to the file:

CODEPAGE=AUTO
TIME=20000

So if you start TMG ten times and then look at the file, you will see 10 instances of the above text. And TMG still doesn't start.

TMG is the only program so far which hasn't weathered the move. The other solution may be to partition my hard disk, have two different installations of Windows (one English, one Japanese) and use a dual-boot option. The alternative - trashing TMG and changing to something like FTM - doesn't bear thinking about. ;-)

Cheers,

Douglas

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