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From: "Andrew Kelly" <>
Subject: TMG-L: Re: tmg-l-digest V3 #767
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:16:09 +0100


Bob Velke wrote:
>From: Bob Velke <>
>PRESS RELEASE
><snipped>
>In May, 1999, Wholly Genes released The Master Genealogist v4.0, which was
>bundled with a powerful new charting utility, Visual Chartform, offering
>click-and-drag customization of every chart element. With this popular new
>utility, researchers found it easy to produce fabulous full-color wall
>charts, including photos, to showcase their research - but they found that
>commercial large-format printing services typically charge $10 per square
>foot or more!

Come off it - I know that press releases often use hyperbole, but to
describe VCF as 'easy' is a huge exaggeration. It is not - and the fact
that questions on VCF posted to this list and elsewhere (e.g. to Wholly
Genes themselves) are (can be?) rarely answered with any certainty, and in
some cases accuracy, underlines this. In this household, VCF is becoming
increasingly unpopular as it seems nigh on impossible to get it to do all
that it claims.

Andrew Kelly.





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