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Welcome to the Nexial Systems page, where you can get the shareware utility, MacPAF Report Utility (MPRU). Alas, we haven't had much chance to work on MPRU in the last year or so, but the versions found here work with the new date types (Child, Stillborn, Died, Dead, Infant) that MacPAF 2.3.1 supports.

First, MRPU is not a stand-a-lone genealogy program. It requires a database maintained by the commercial MacPAF program, sold by the LDS church. I will post more information about MPRU, including sample reports, here soon. Relatively speaking. In the meantime, it is shareware ($20), so feel free to download and play. You will also need Stuffit Expander to extract MPRU from any of these archives.

For Mac 128, 512k, Plus, SE, Classic. And all other Macs, if you wish.

For Macs with 68020-68040 or PowerPC processors; it may run slightly faster than the /u version.

Note: I have been unable to continue development of MPRU as I had hoped. I encourage you to migrate from MacPAF to Reunion, a wonderful program that is provides many professional-level genealogical capabilities missing from MacPAF.

Known defects:

If a GEDCOM file has NOTE lines longer than 80 characters, MacPAF will not wrap them to 80 character lines upon import like it does when you type the information in online. MPRU currently will not display characters beyond column 80. This will be fixed Real Soon Now. I think if you make any change to such a note, MacPAF will store it back in 74 character lines.

Note: This Nexial Systems is a small, one to three person programming co-operative, established in 1975 to write statistical and game software for Hewlett-Packard calculators (boy, were those fun days; you did that in 49 steps??), branching into TRS-80 systems in 1978 and Macintosh in 1986. During our existence we have made literally hundreds of dollars doing the odd program; usually very odd. We all have day jobs and are not looking for actual work, but if you want to make us an offer... One of us worked at Apple for a few years and is now becoming a multi-media guru; another is a software engineer at a large non-Bell telephone company, dreaming of Object Pascal, Oberon or SmallTalk-based Object Oriented Analysis, Design, & Code, but instead doing state of the art FORTRAN/77 system development on up-to-date, cutting edge 1960's mainframe technology - be still, my racing heart. And the third has become a Netware guru, in addition to dBASE and CA Clipper development. Eclectic skills, eh? By the way, Nexial Systems is working on full ISO-9003 and SEI CMM Level 5 conformance; we reached six-sigma long ago (we stopped coding). As long as it doesn't interfere with our time needed to read Dilbert and contemplate the profound wisdom contained therein. Check back in the next century for our progress. By the way, none of us has ever used a card punch, so we're not that old... Well, maybe once, but it was a class assignment. That's when I went and bought an HP-25c and formed Nexial Systems.

We are not affiliated with the Dutch company Nexial Systems, unfortunately. If we were, this would probably be in Dutch (although we could be in Dutch if they have a prior claim to the name, making us the non-Dutch Nexial Systems in-Dutch with the Dutch Nexial Systems...) and we'd be more successful; and they did use the www.nexial.com domain I would like to have acquired! I'd 'borrow' their fantastic web logo, but they probably wouldn't be pleased with that, either.

Nor are we affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), though I would certainly like to thank them for their incredible support of genealogists of all religious & non-religious persuasions.

If interested, ask me the etymology of Nexial. I was surprised to learn recently that it was the basis upon which L. Ron Hubbard founded Scientology. Interesting. And no, none of us are affiliated with that group, either.

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