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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Can't import directly from PAF
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:11:30 -0700
References: <200610031520.k93FKLc4004432@mail.rootsweb.com><006001c6e74e$1fedc7a0$640fa8c0@Villandra2><00d701c6e74f$7dc9fd20$6601a8c0@charliexvi><006e01c6e751$92995f50$640fa8c0@Villandra2>
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On or about 10/3/2006 06:08 PM a carrier pigeon from Dora Smith delivered:
>I am having trouble importing my database directly from PAF version 5.2.
>
>When I try it hangs up in the middle of transferring tags or
>something. It gives me a Visual FoxPro error message.
>
>I am using the trial version of TMG. But I need to be able to
>import my database to find out what TMG can do! When I imported a
>GEDCOM instead I found my notes messed up with error tags about
>illegal characters, and the paragraphs gone.

Whatever character you used to create the "paragraph" in PAF
is likely the "illegal character". Memo fields in TMG are single
strings, to get a "paragraph" one has to embed a formatting code;
which is text -- from the TMG help file:

Carriage Return
[:CR:]
This code inserts a carriage return (new line) at the specified location.
NOTE: In a Sentence field, you cannot use the <Enter> key to create a
carriage return. It will be stripped out when you close the window.
You must use this code if you want a carriage return in a Sentence field.
Wholly Genes, Inc.


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