•  Initial AWOL Utilities 1.0 release.

1.2.0 (October 2, 1993)



requested while the timer was counting down.

•  Fixed a bug in the countdown 'CDEF' which caused a crash if help was

two parts small enough for TeachText to handle.

agrees to save the help file as a TeachText document, the file is split into

•  If the help server is absent when Maybe requests help, and the user

1.2.1 (January 19, 1994)



example, when startup disk is locked).

•  Allowed the application to operate without a preferences file (for

•  Improved the documentation on sound handling.

Name dialog.

•  Added the ability to choose sound number as well as name in the Sound

Action Sound dialog.

•  Added Record Sound Into… button to enable sound recording within the

Action Sound dialog and two radio buttons in the Sound Name dialog.

•  Replaced Paste Sound buttons with one Paste Sound Into… button in the

from the System file or any unwritable file.

•  Cut Sound and Clear Sound buttons are disabled if selected sound is

option which prevented help display.

•  Corrected an incompatibility with SpeedyFinder7’s Help menu removal

of a disk other than the startup disk.

•  Fixed a bug which prevented conversion of aliases in the desktop folder

1.2.2 (February 27, 1994)



•  Added the thank-you hot button under Acknowledgements.

•  Some minor documentation changes.

1.2.3 (March 13, 1994)



the Power Macintosh.

•  Corrected a bug which prevented the use of the Action Sound dialog on

•  Public AWOL Utilities 1.1 release.

1.3 (March 28, 1994)








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to others who provided useful information.

Special thanks to the 170 fine people who beta-tested this software, and



One big hug to Toni and the family for enduring a LOT of late nights.





good advice about Apple events.

his adorable AEBuild package, and Jon Pugh for some quick answers and

The author would like to thank Jens Peter Alfke for writing and supporting








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application source code).

developer’s package (resource, library, header file, and sample

applications, write to the author at the above address to get a copy of the

author.  If you would like to add countdown timers to your own

dialog uses a special 'CDEF' and programming interface written by the

The countdown timer control which optionally appears in the Prompt








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Maybe to overcome this limitation.

Apple’s Easy Open software extension will enable a later version of

converted alias in the list of documents to open.  It is possible that

Also, file dialogs posted by the owning application will not include the

regular Finder alias, neither as the source of the drag, nor as the target.

cannot use drag-and-drop with a converted alias as you would with a

no association with the application which owns that item.  Therefore, you

application.  While its icon looks like that of the target item, it really has

Finder as anything other than a document belonging to the Maybe

Once a Finder alias file has been converted, it is no longer understood by








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