Re: Family Line/Ancestry Programs

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Jan 31, 2:44 pm, Hugh Hood <hughh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> In case anyone's interested in reading the 100-page docs for Bud Simrin's
> AncestorWorks package without first unshrinking the disks, loading the files
> into an AppleWorks file reader and then printing, I went ahead and ran his
> AppleWorks Word Processor file through the AppleWorks .pdf print driver and
> created a .pdf file of the docs.
>
> If you'd like a copy (or if Bill wants to put it with the disk downloads)
> let me know, and I'll send it out. It's only 188 kB.
>
> Regardless of your interest (or lack thereof in my case) in family history
> software, the AncestorWorks package has value for a couple of other reasons.
>
> First, it includes five (5) 'Init' files for general use with _any_
> AppleWorks UltraMacros application. These files contain dozens of additional
> 'Dot' commands for use in UltraMacros programs. These commands were not
> included in either the AppleWorks 5.1 distribution or in the separate Ultra
> packages.
>
> AFAIK, these (5) files are not available for download from the web from any
> other source.
>
> They are:
>
> 1. I.UM.FILE.TOOLS
> 2. I.UM.SCRN.TOOLS
> 3. I.UM.STR.TOOLS
> 4. I.UM.PATHHAMES
> 5. I.UM.MISC.TOOLS
>
> I believe these were all written by some mystery programmer named 'Cub', who
> undoubtedly must hail from 'parts unknown' (as did The Spoiler, Don Jardine,
> but I digress). Who was 'Cub'? Anybody know?
>
> Anyway, after you unshrink the disk from Bill's site, just copy these (5)
> files to the 'AW.INITS' directory in your AppleWorks (5.1) folder.
>
> You _still_ won't have all the UltraMacros 'Dot' commands in existence, but
> you'll have most of 'em. The remaining others were written by Doug Gum
> (Office Productivity Software / AmperMacros) and Barclay Clemesha.
>
> Second, the package holds instructional value in that it demonstrates the
> extremes to which AppleWorks can be pushed with UltraMacros programming.
>
> Hugh Hood
>
> in article
> dfe2a3e3-5319-4cdf-824c-b7d9f5b25...@u24g2000prn.googlegroups.com,
> bill.mart...@gmail.com at bill.mart...@gmail.com wrote on 1/28/11 5:33 PM:
>
> > On Jan 29, 4:11 am, Mike Spurgeon <m...@spurgeon.net> wrote:
> >> On 1/28/2011 9:50 AM, Smohn Jith wrote:
>
> >>> Mike Spurgeon wrote:
> >>>> On 1/27/2011 6:46 PM, Smohn Jith wrote:
> >>>>> Any good genealogical programs for the Apple II?On 1/27/2011 6:46 PM,
> >>>>> Smohn Jith wrote:
> >>>>> Any good genealogical programs for the Apple II?
>
> >>>> It was probably the best. I have the latest Apple II version, and the
> >>>> menu has an 'import/export gedcom' choice.
>
> >>>> I used it for years.
>
> >>>> I have a complete version with all documentation .
>
> >>>> What's it worth to you?
>
> >>> Wasn't it released Freeware?
>
> >> I left out that I meant Family Roots.
>
> > While the link above that Garber posted is fine for just the disks,
> > the entire web site for Ancestorworks has been recovered at
> >http://anw.applearchives.comand all of the disks are there as they
> > were given to us by Bud in 2002.
>
> > Cheers
>
> > --billm--

Thanks to Hugh, we now have the Ancestor Works Manual in PDF on the
site at http://anw.applearchives.com

cheers

--billm--