Try Gramps! It has LDS info support and it's really nice. I even prefer it to PAF. 

Art Moore

Quoting Michael Brailsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:11:14PM -0700, James Nickerson wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully gotten personal ancestral file to run through
> > wine?  I've tinkered with it to the point where everyone seems to work
> > for the most part, except when you try to click the third tab to work on
> > an individual, it freezes cold.  The only reason I go into windows is to
> > use PAF, and it's getting old.  Especially since my roommate is a PAF
> > maniac who likes to work on my pc, so every time I turn around he's
> > rebooted the sucker into windoze.  I could risk divine punishment and
> > make it so tricky to exit linux that he'd never pull it off and his
> > ancestors would suffer.. unless he just pulled the plug.  Which he
> > probably would, being somewhat obtuse when it comes to computers  But
> > then I'd have to thrash him, which won't earn me points up above
> > either.  So for the sake of my eternal well-being, I would love any sort
> > of advice or morale-building tales of wine-PAF success.  Cheers,
> 
> Install a journaling filesystem and make your screensaver lock the
> computer, so you need a password.  The journaling filesystem will make
> it less likely that you lose anything when/if your roomate unplugs the
> cpu.  You could also change the lilo/grub bootloader menu to make it
> look like you have removed windows, by naming all the entries like they
> are linux.
> 
> Maybe it is just me, but I would be a little upset at the whole idea of a
> roomate rebooting my machine, ever.  I would politely inform the
> offending party that they are more than welcome to use my cpu, using
> their *own* account, and if they ever rebooted again they would no
> longer be welcome using the computer.  That is just my take, you are
> probably a nicer person than I am, but it would irk me to have someone
> else reboot my computer.
> 
> As for PAF, I have never used it in either windows or wine.  :)
> 
> -- 
> Michael
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