Thirty-eight people attended the meeting, with Terry B coordinating. One
new member - Rob.
1. Internet security update email: Ted T.
2. Family trees: Owen
Owen writes:
Every genealogy program produces a different form of family tree chart,
sometimes known as a "Dropdown chart".
Generally these charts may not meet your specific needs, and as this was the
case for me, I used a program called Latex, which is a typesetting program
and made my own. I can not imagine a harder way of doing this, but as an
exercise in learning a new language and wasting copious amounts of time, it
was a marvellous success.
Latex is basically a unixy type facility, but there are windows versions
available, search Google for "Miktex Context" if you wish to develop your
typesetting skills. (www.miktex.org and www.pragma-ade.nl)
Trevor has written offering further information on this:
"I came across the following message
from Lockergnome Windows Digest today:
GreatFamily v1.1 [921k] W9x/2k/XP FREE
http://www.greatprogs.com/download/GF_Setup.exe
http://www.greatprogs.com/
http://screenshot.lockergnome.com/greatfamily.png
{Make a family tree} Imagine a program that lets you create a
family tree. Sound interesting? Now how about an easy Web page
maker that lets you turn that family tree into a Web page? Yep,
that's just what this thing does. It's great! It's for families!
It's GreatFamily!"
3. Zone Alarm: Trevor
4. Word PDF: Ken
Magazine "PC Authority" for March 02 has a free program "Ability Write"
which is a Word look alike suite.
In "Ability Write", the word processor it is possible to "Print to PDF"
which turns the text to a PDF file. I have tried it and it works.
5. Computer fairs and PCUG: Allan M.
Allan told us about the PCUG Committee's proposal to issue Sixteen Bits
bi-monthly (ie 6 times per year) plus a newsletter that would be mailed in
electronic form to those members who were on-line, in paper form to those
who were not. He asked anyone who wished to put forward ideas on this
matter to contact the PCUG Committee.
6. Windows XP does not recognise LPT2;
Word - compile error in hidden module;
Microsoft security updates - exe file: Peter H.
Peter had two unresolved problems since installing Windows XP. Firstly,
Windows XP does not recognise the parallel port, LPT 2, on his desktop
computer. It was suggested that Windows XP may not recognise more than one
parallel port.
Secondly, on opening Word 2000 or Excel 2000, he was receiving an error
message that said "Compile error in hidden module: Auto Exec". This problem
is due to a conflict with Adobe Acrobat 5 that places the file 'PDFMaker' in
the Microsoft Office Startup folder. Microsoft Knowledge Base (Q307410)
recommends moving this PDFMaker file to the ' My Documents' folder. This
solved the problem.
Peter said that he had recently received over twenty email messages with the
heading: Internet Security Update. The message has the appearance of being
an official Microsoft communication except that it has an .exe file
attached. Microsoft never distributes security patches or other product
updates via email.
This .exe file labeled q21630919 contains the Gibe.A worm. This is a
mass-mailing Trojan worm that utilizes Microsoft Outlook to propagate
itself. There is a full description at
http://www3.ca.com/Virus/Virus.asp?ID=11468
7. SRT scan newspapers - Mike D.
8. Tony B. raised two questions:
(1) He experiences a problem when shutting down Windows 98 in that the
computer fails to shut down. How can he shut down successfully without
having ScanDisk start up next time that he boots the computer?
(2) He would like to transfer files from one of his two computers to the
other. Is there a simple way of doing this without networking the two
computers?
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