FreeCEN
Software Download & Installation
Transcription - INCENS
REQUIREMENTS: Windows, or Apple/Mac with "Windows Emulation".
DOWNLOAD from http://freecen.rootsweb.com
Download needs floppy disk storage because of the method of Installation.
INCENS needs download of TWO files: "INCENS21.EXE" and the relevant "County File" of the type "ctyCEN91.EXE" from the Web Pages.
INSTALLATION: may be onto any hard drive, but MUST be into a main folder named \UKCENSUS\
Detailed Installation instructions (on the Web Page) should be followed carefully!
SET-UP: Run "INCENS21.EXE" from the floppy disk, noting all prompts and messages.
UPGRADE: only the 'Upgrade' option should be installed if attempting to restore the programmes after a computer mishap with 'work-in-progress'. Re-installing INCENS21 is liable to lose valuable work!
Transcription: SSCENS
REQUIREMENTS: Any Spreadsheet programme which can produce a "comma separated variable" (.CSV) output file.
DOWNLOAD from http://freecen.rootsweb.com
Download to any chosen storage medium, noting the WebPage instructions, and RUN "SSCENS.EXE" to access the necessary files
SET-UP: SSCENS is a specification rather than an executable programme
The Spreadsheet programme must be running before the sample .CSV files can be examined or worked (using the spreadsheet)
Checking - WINCC
REQUIREMENTS: Windows, or Apple/Mac with "Windows Emulation".
DOWNLOAD "WINCCvv.EXE" from http://freecen.rootsweb.com
Download to any chosen storage. ("vv" in the above filename represents the 'version' number).
SET-UP: WINCC may be installed onto any hard drive, and to any main folder named to your choice.
Run "WINCCvv.EXE" and note all prompts and messages.
UPGRADES: WINCCvv may be safely loaded into any folder containing "work-in-progress".
Validation - VALDREV
REQUIREMENTS: Windows, or Apple/Mac with "Windows Emulation".
DOWNLOAD "VALDvv.EXE" from http://freecen.rootsweb.com
Download to any chosen storage. ("vv" in the above filename represents the 'version' number).
SET-UP: VALDREV may be installed onto any hard drive, and to any main folder named to your choice.
Run "VALDvv.EXE" and note all prompts and messages.
UPGRADES: VALDvv may be safely loaded into any folder containing "work-in-progress".
Utility Routines
GENIE Place Locator
REQUIREMENTS: Windows, or Apple/Mac with "Windows Emulation".
DOWNLOAD "GENIE.EXE" from http://freecen.rootsweb.com
INSTALLATION: As a free-standing routine GENIE may be installed on any Hard Drive, and into any suitable folder.
GENIE is automatically installed with the standard INCENS Download.
CSVCHECK
The CSVCHECK Utility does not require any specific computing skills and is designed to allow Transcribers to test and report on SSCENS Transcriptions to ensure compliance with the FreeCEN standards and requirements.
REQUIREMENTS: Windows, or Apple/Mac with "Windows Emulation".
DOWNLOAD "CSVCHK.EXE" from href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~renowden/fctools/"
Download to any chosen storage.
INSTALLATION: Run "CSVCHK.EXE".
CSVCHECK may be installed on any hard drive, but must be installed into a main folder named \FCTOOLS\.
UPGRADES: CSVCHK may safely be upgraded into the \FCTOOLS\ folder at any time.
FCTOOLS/TOOLBOX (also contains CSVCHECK)
FCTOOLS is a suite of Utility routines intended for use by County Co-ordinators or selected delegates. It is not recommended that anyone without computer competence should attempt to use these routines.
FCTOOLS is written as a series of "command-line" routines.
TOOLBOX is a DOS-based compilation, enabling FCTOOLS routines to be operated as a series of "prompt and reply" packages.
REQUIREMENTS: Windows, or Apple/Mac with "Windows Emulation"; TOOLBOX is DOS-based.
DOWNLOAD "FCTOOLS.EXE" from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~renowden/fctools/
Download to any chosen storage.
Non-users of Windows systems should download the "FCTOOLS.ZIP" file.
INSTALLATION: Run "FCTOOLS.EXE" to expand the necessary files.
FCTOOLS may be installed on any hard drive, but must be installed into a main folder named \FCTOOLS\.
UPGRADES: FCTOOLS may safely be upgraded, or re-installed, into the same folder at any time.
VALCONV (part of TOOLBOX)
This Utility is needed by County-Co-ordinators in order to "update" work Validated using the old VALCENS programme so that it becomes compatible with the format produced by VALDREV Validation.
The "VALDREV format" is required for Upload to the FreeCEN Database.
CENSDUPL
Work validated using versions of VALDREV earlier than v1.2.4 may have been subjected to a programme fault which could cause Duplication of some records and over-writing of others in the Validated file.
CENSDUPL is a DOS-based routine which will detect and report any such faults so that they may be corrected during Post-Validation.
REQUIREMENTS: the ability to run a DOS routine
DOWNLOAD: "CENSDUPL.EXE" from http://freecen.rootsweb.com
Download to any chosen storage.
INSTALLATION: Run "CSVCHK.EXE".
CSVCHECK may be installed on any hard drive, and into any suitably named folder.
RUN the Batch-file CENSDUPL.BAT
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Jan2004