Preparation
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This software requires XView and has been tested under SunOS 4.1.X and Solaris 2.X.
If you get it working on anything else I'd be most grateful if you could let me
know! (send me a postcard!)

If you are running System V (e.g. Solaris 2.X) add -DSYSV to CFLAGS in the Makefile, 
otherwise BSD is assumed.

Installation and Execution:
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Compile the program by typing 

make

Once the program has compiled(!), the important files are:

FDB      - the executable!
fdb.info - the on-line help file

These can be placed anywhere sensible really, as long as FDB is
somewhere on your PATH and fdb.info is somewhere on your HELPPATH

e.g. if you install FDB in /usr/contrib/bin and fdb.info in
/usr/contrib/lib then the environment variable PATH must contain
the directory /usr/contrib/bin and the environment variable
HELPPATH must contain /usr/contrib/lib
 
N.B. make sure the permissions on FDB and fdb.info allow the necessary
access.

Instructions:
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To execute the program, loading a database file called family.fdb,
type 

FDB family.fdb

If you run the program with no argument a new database will be
created with one empty entry ready for use.

There is a fair amount of on-line documentation, to use it place the
mouse pointer over the object (e.g. button, menu etc.) and press the
Help key (bottom left of the keyboard usually). If there's no Help
key I believe the F1 key sometimes works instead.

There is a file called USAGE.txt which contains a distillation of the
information in the on-line help entries. A LaTeX version of this file
is provided in USAGE.tex. 

Limits:
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As released there are limits on the number of spouses of a person (6),
the number of children of a person (12) and the total number of people
in the database (200). These can be changed if required, by editing the
file definitions.h and altering the parameters MAX_SPOUSES, MAX_CHILDREN
and MAX_INDICES respectively. recompile the software using make as above.

