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I've had second thoughts on this. The biggest problem with the free e-mail accounts is that they are throwaway. The account could vanish at any time, and they are not reliable for e-commerce.I suspect most adults who take on genealogy as a hobby, must have a regular e-mail account with their ISP and maybe have ...

My goodness. I really have given you a tough time tonight.I'll need more information to figure this one out. I've tried various combinations with and without a middle name or initial sent to my own e-mail address, and I can't get it to not work.Louis

Nope. I haven't heard of that one yet. That's a bad one if you can't even run the program.I'll have to try to determine what DLL it can't locate. Behold doesn't include any DLLs at all, but does use a few that should be on all Windows systems.I'll e-mail you directly and hopefully we can solve it. Louis

Thanks for letting me know this. I didn't realize it, but by default Plimus does not accept Hotmail, Yahoo and other free accounts. Their reason (they say) is that 97.3 percent of fraudulent orders are submitted from e-mail addresses originating from a free e-mail service. I can see that being a problem for ...

No. It actually was my poor design choice for the user interface that made Rich believe there was a problem. I'm sure others would think that as well.I'm making changes to try to prevent this and will issue a point release in the next few days.Louis

Thanks. That's a very strict-to-standard GEDCOM with many sources and other goodies that will all be able to be handled by Behold.

I may have to allow a few special codes in the text field, e.g. something like: -append- to append the text following the tag to the previous line. Maybe others like -br- to break the line. I'll check what GEDCOM tags from different programs can't display properly during alpha and/or beta testing and I'll see ...

Actually, PAF is one of the few programs that handles CONC tags in the strange way that GEDCOM specifies. PAF is created by the LDS who also designed GEDCOM. But others like FTM never followed GEDCOM as strictly, causing the problems you mention when transferring GEDCOMs.The trick in Behold will be to flexibly ...

Hmmm. I have never had a problem on the three machines I test on - one being Windows XP Pro, one being XP Home, and one being Windows 98. Tonight when I get home, I'll send you an e-mail privately to try to pin this one down.Louis

That's correct. Nothing's programmed there yet.Louis