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From: "Ray & Mary Green" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: GEDCOM Import problem
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:59:00 -0700


Tony wrote,


> Today I received a gedcom file that was produced by Family Reunion
for
>windows v5.0. Every line was terminated with <cr><cr><lf> instead of the
>normal <cr><lf> carriage return line feed pair. When this file is viewed
>with the TMG editor the file appears to be double spaced because of the
>double carriage return.
> Does anyone know how to get TMG to import this file correctly? What
>should the person that generated the file be doing differently?


Tony,

Having been a prior user of Family Reunion, ugh, I experienced the problem
you describe and was unable to find any way around it. Contact with the
author of the program produced no satisfaction either. My solution was to
use an old DOS text editor, (SLED) if anyone remembers, which could be set
up to extract the <CR's> by simply resaving the file (presence of the <LF>
is enough to satisfy TMG for the import). This was the manner in which I
moved all of our files into TMG. I might add that Brother's Keeper couldn't
read these Gedcom files either however Family Reunion had no problem
reimporting them.

Ray Green

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