Re: [Wlug] The "broken" text file (was: I guess this is goodbye... )

E Johnson writes:

So now I think I need some way of seeing the text in this file, so that I can find where the glitched-up text is, that is hanging up the whole operation.

Google searches for "gedcom file validator" or "gedcom file checker" both produce useful (and free) results, but the results appear for the most part to be Windows programs. If you want a linux/foss-ish program, you can look at these: http://gramps-project.org/ http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/ http://genj.sourceforge.net/ They all work with gedcom files I believe. One of them might perhaps include a file-validator which would tell you more about the corruption in your gedcom file. --MCV.