Composite monitor or LCD screen
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If you have a composite monitor (a one color monitor such as that in the
Compaq portables) or an LCD screen (laptops) and you have trouble reading
the screens in PAFAbility, you will need to set the video mode to black
and white before executing PAFAbility. The following DOS command will set
the video mode to black and white:

             c:\> mode bw80

After you have finished using PAFAbility, type "MODE CO80" at the DOS prompt
to reset the video mode to color.

Dot matrix printers
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Some Epson compatible printers are more compatible than others. If the reset
option doesn't work on your printer, that's why.

NOTES AND PICA TYPE
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If you choose Pica type and want to include notes in the report, you are not
going to like what you see. The problem is the way PAF handles notes. The PAF
notes editor is line oriented, not paragraph oriented, as a word processor is.
Every line ends with a hard return. Therefore, there is no way for a program
to determine whether or note the note in question is a paragraph style note,
such as:

      Conflict: [1900] Census lists as Dowe, Peter, age 33, section foreman
      for R. RR., boarding with John Brown ....

or a list, such as:

      Sources:  Birth Certificate
                Marriage certificate
                Death certificate

Each line of a PAF note can be up to 80 characters long. An 8" wide piece of
paper can accomodate 85 characters, at most, with pica type. As you can see,
by the time margins are deducted and the other formatting indentations, there
is not room left on the line for a full length note line. PAFAbility
terminates the line to fit and puts the rest of the note line on the next line
of the report. Then, the next note line starts a new line on the report. Thus,
you get the long line, short line, long line, short line pattern.

I'm working on some ideas to get around this for version 3, but, in the
meantime, this is how it is.

Message "Out of memory. Report will be terminated."
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Some people have reported an erroneous error message indicating PAF files
may be corrupted when the real problem is a low memory condition. I have not
been able to duplicate the problem. However, a check for this condition was
added in 2 places. Hopefully, this will catch the problem. If you receive
this message, try freeing up more memory by selecting the "don't load the
name file into memory" option on the "Options/Misc" panel.
