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- Notes Feature
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- While researching your ancestors, you will undoubtedly find a
- wealth of interesting information that you want to keep but can not
- be entered into the database. Family Scrapbook has a notes feature
- to help you deal with this. To keep notes, you must choose a text
- editor or word processor to create and edit your notes with. The
- editor must be able to accept the name of the text file from the DOS
- command line.
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- Example: I have a word processor named WP and a notes file
- named NOTE.DOC. When I am at the DOS prompt, I should be able
- to enter the command: WP NOTE.DOC and see the contents of
- NOTE.DOC when the word processor loads up. If the word processor
- does not load the notes file up, it probably won't work with Family
- Scrapbook. However, most word processors and text editors can do
- this.
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- To implement the notes feature you must go to the Program
- Setup screen and tell it the command that is needed to start your
- editor. While in the setup area, it is also a good idea to tell it where
- to put the notes. It is highly recommended that you assign separate
- directories for person notes and family notes. This helps keep things
- organized. Then, whenever you are in the Family Database or the
- Person Database and you want to type in a few extra items of
- interest, simply press ALT-N and your editor will pop up.
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- If you choose a large word processor to use as your editor, you
- might need to turn on the Swap to EMS/Disk option in the Program
- Setup area. Normally, when Family Scrapbook loads the editor, it
- keeps itself in your computer's memory (RAM) while you do your
- editing. This is the fastest and easiest way to do it. However,
- Family Scrapbook will be using about 250K of your computer's
- memory WHILE your editor is running and that might not leave
- enough free memory for the editor/word processor. You can still use
- your editor by enabling the Swap to EMS/Disk option. For more
- information about the swap option, refer to it's special section in the
- manual.
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- This is how the names for note files are determined: If it is a
- note file for a person record, it will be the letter P plus the person's
- record number and the extension NOT. For family note files it is the
- letter F, the record number, and NOT. Example: Family Database
- record number 167 would have a note file named F167.NOT
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- Please note that the Gedcom utility can import and export
- notes in gedfiles, but in order to do this the note files must be ASCII
- text. Most word processors do not normally save their files as ASCII
- text, but many offer it as an option. This fact may be of importance
- to you when choosing a program for recording notes.
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