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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Inconsistency using formatting codes
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 09:12:40 -0500
References: <3C0A8434.21705.C281EC@localhost> <001701c17bae$45be2620$11c3fea9@oemcomputer>


Bill Kullman wrote:

> I tried to run an ancestor ahnentafel chart, standard
> columnar....asking for 35 generations, which I assumed would be pretty
> straightforward.
>
> It was...to generation 34, afterwhich the report turned to gobbledygook....
> still printing people, no AT #'s for about 4 or 5 pages. Tried that a couple
> times, looking for what might trigger the collapse of data.... then changed
> starting person...and had the same experience...so, I don't think it's the
> data, it must be the program.

The problem is the size (number of digits) of the Ahnentafel Numbers associated
with so many generations. The problem is evident it you check the option to show
the numbers, as they become a mess before that, and finally completely fall
apart. But it doesn't matter whether you show them or not, as apparently the
program uses them or something similar to control generation of the report, so
it fails past a certain number of generations in any case.

I understand this problem is caused by the limits in the way the Foxpro system
that underlies TMG handles (or rather fails to handle) large integers. I don't
know of any way to work around the problem other than to break the chart into
pieces, which is less than satisfactory. We can only hope that the new version
of Foxpro used by TMG 5 will deal with this better, but I don't know if it will.

Terry Reigel

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