On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Terry Collins wrote:
> > Bizarre. I've just speak the last couple of days hunting down
> > genealogy software for *nix (there is very little). I just started
> > writing one.
But wait! There's more ...
> For people who may be interested;
>
> I know of and use Lifelines and Geneweb.
>
> Lifelines (vm1.nodak.edu/lines-l) has a command line start with text
I think it has since moved to <URL
http://www.bartonstreet.com/software/lines/index.html>
> screen. It has just gone open source (MIT licence). You use your
> favorite editor to enter data in Gedcom format, plus whatever you want
> to add. Its strength is the reports and it has a scripting language if
> you want to roll your own. Plus, a lot of people have contributed
> utilities.
The downside is that it uses GEDCOM. Gedcom has over 8000 different
possible permutations for a data input line. Almost all of them are
contextual. Yup, you get to act a parser.
> Geneweb (http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb) is really a WWW server.
Another is/was FamilyHistorian <URL http://www.familyhistorian.org/>
but nothing has ever been released. There was another program too but
the name and URL seem to be lost in the mess that is my bookmarks file
Anand
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