Suggested share names for FS resources are given below. Note: the $ suffix hides the folder when the network is browsed.

• af$ - Ancestral File
• lc$ - Library Catalog
• igi$ - Int. Genealogical Index
• ad$ - IGI Addendum
• scr$ - Scottish Church Records
• ss$ - SS Death Index
• mi$ - Military Index

The Folder Sharing page has more information on folder sharing.

FamilySearch requires 568,320 bytes of conventional memory. The Mem command can be used to display the amount of available memory on the system.

C:\>mem

FS requires 933,888 bytes of Expanded Memory (EMS). It's important to make the distinction between EMS and Extended Memory, XMS. On W9x systems EMS is made available by an Expanded Memory Manager such as EMM386.exe that is loaded in the CONFIG.SYS file after the High Memory Area manager.

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /M:1

Typical entries are:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 1024
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE 1024
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM.SYS AT 258
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM.SYS MEMORY=1024
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS MEMORY=1024
DEVICE=C:\QRAM\QRAM.SYS
DEVICE=REMM.SYS

Ben Winkler has provided the following information regarding memory usage:

• In the past a problem with Extended/Expanded memory might require tweaking the Config.sys file to install a memory manager such as EMM386.exe. W2K and XP use Config.nt to control the default amount of EMS memory. It can also be specified in the PAS PIF.

For those of you that are not able to configure EMS on your systems you should try disabling all video ROM shadowing and verify that the Gate A20 function is enabled and/or set to fast in the BIOS. You might also try booting DOS with an EMS driver and verifying the amount of EMS RAM with the MEM command.

More information on configuring EMS memory is available at these sites:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q275423/

Microsoft Knowledge Base article on configuring EMS on Me

http://www.columbia.edu/%7Eem36/wpdos/windowsxp.html#enableems

detailed information on configuring EMS on W2K and XP for Word Perfect DOS.

Print Delay

Some centers have experienced a 60 second delay printing from FamilySearch on the network. If a DOS application does not close the printer port W98 waits 45 seconds after receiving data before printing. The delay can be shortened to 10 seconds by adding the following lines after the [386enh] section in the system.ini file on patron workstations:

[Network]
PrintBufTime=10
[IFSMGR]
PrintBufTime=10

Windowed Operation

FS and PAF3 can be configured to operate in a window on W9x. This enables other applications to gain the focus while they are running.

Ancestral File download

In the C:\PAS\PASETUP.TXT file, the first two uncommented "DRIVEx=" lines determine which drives will show up as the choices as to which drive to use when saving or reading files.

For example:

DRIVEA=3 1/2 in. Diskette
#DRIVEB=5 1/4 in. Diskette
DRIVEY=Hard Drive (Network)

will cause the system to display:

A 3 1/2 in. Diskette
Y Hard Drive (Network)

As the two choices when reading from or writing to disk.

So, to download Ancestral File GEDCOM's to the hard drive add a DRIVEC line to the \pas\pasetup.txt file

DRIVEA=3 1/2 in. Diskette
DRIVEC=Hard Drive (Diskette)

Ancestral File generations

To change the maximum number of generations that you can download from Ancestral File, edit the C:\PAS\AF\AFSETUP.TXT file (default location).

To change the number of levels that can be saved to 99, change the value of the following parameters as shown:

MAXGOBACK=100
MAXGENS=99

During installation you will be forced to choose a value of 13 or less. This method allows you to override the setting chosen during installation. Setting MAXGENS to a value greater than 99 generates an incorrect display.

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