NOTFIX13.EXE
                 Version 1.3, 20 Aug 1994
          Copyright (c) Aug 1994, Jack J. Chandler

Update: Version 1.3 corrects a problem in earlier versions that
could possibly cause loss of some notes if the end of a note line
occurred at the intersection of two note records in the notepad.

Some PAF utility programs do not properly initialize the PAF
Data records that they modify or write data to.  PAF as a rule
clears all previous data from a new record and fills that record
with nul characters.  This stucture is expected by many utility
programs when they access the PAF data.

PAFs FRCHK.EXE program will NOT report an error if the last several
unused bytes of a record contain extraneous characters as long as
the required END OF RECORD bytes are there.  Some Utility programs
though expect to find these trailing fill nuls characters and do
not work properly without them.

As an example, the program PAFCTOOL does NOT clear the record before
writing to it.  Any unused bytes in a NOTE2.DAT record will contain
whatever extraneous characters were previously in those bytes of
that record.

This data does not have any detrimental effect on entering notes
from within the Family Records program of PAF.  Nor does it effect
the entry of notes with the program IMPORT.  Both of these will add
their notes in the proper place and properly terminate a record with
the required trailing nuls to the end of the record.

NOTCLEAN does not modify any note records themselves and therefore
will NOT remove these extraneous characters.  NOTCLEAN copies each
NOTES2.DAT record as it is found into its new location, taking along
the extraneous characters with it.

I recommend the use of NOTFIX10.EXE on any database that has had
the NOTE2.DAT file modified or rebuilt by any utility program that
may have effected the proper format of that file and its records.
This should be done prior to attempting to use those files with
programs such as GENBOOK or other programs that have problems when
accessing the PAF NOTES2.DAT file.  Keep in mind that the problem
lies not with the programs having the problem reading the data, but
with the previous program that modified the data.

This program, NOTFIX10.EXE will remove ALL extraneous characters
from the end of any NOTE2.DAT record and replace them with nul
characters.  There is no fee, registeration, or donation requested
for the program NOTFIX10.EXE.  It may be freely distributed but
this text file and copyright notice must accompany the program.

Jack Chandler, 812 Vermillion Dr., Henderson, NV  89015