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RELEASE NOTES
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Release notes for version 1.01, released 4-16-91
1. A warning dialog box is presented when deleting a sequence from the
alignment using the Cut or Clear commands. It is easy to do this
accidently by just pressing the delete key, so it is nice to have
a way to back out of the operation.
2. While making change (1), I discovered a bug in the Copy command,
which caused the program to bomb the _second_ time a sequence was
Copied to the clipboard.
3. MACAW now makes use of more memory when performing a search.
Previously, the hit array and the diagonal array were each limited
to 64K (128K total). Consequently, it was common to run out of
memory when searching over many long sequences, even on systems with
16 M of RAM.
4. There was a bug that caused unpredictable behavior when sending
output to a plotter (It had to do with the use of a particular
drawing command that was not supported for plotters). This came up
in the context of capturing HPGL plotter commands in a file and
importing the file into CorelDraw, PageMaker, and so forth.
After fixing the simple bug, this seems to work correctly. You need
to add a line to the [ports] section of your win.ini file to set up
a filename as a 'printer port', then install an HP plotter driver
conneted to that filename. MACAW output is then sent to the file
and imported into Corel Draw.
5. Many users reported confusion at the "(number x)" label that was
automatically assigned to blocks, so blocks are now left without
a label when initially created. You can assign a label in the
BlockEditor, but it is not required.
6. The Autokeep option now only keeps blocks when they are linked. This
reduces the accumulation of too many useless blocks.
Release notes for version 1.02, released 5-10-91
1. When printing the blocks, the value of m reported was wrong. This
bug has been fixed.
2. The Export function allowed the user to specify a line length, but
then ignored the value and used a line length of 50 instead.
Version 1.02 handles line length correctly.
Release notes for version 1.03, released 8-01-91
1. ** NOTE ** There has been a slight modification of the file format
for MACAW data files (*.MCW). Although it _should_ be transparent,
it may be wise to make backup copies of all of your data files before
using the new version.
2. In previous versions of the program, there was a bug which resulted
in an inability to read certain MCW files in which any of the user-
editable text fields (e.g. sequence description) contained the
double quote character. Version 1.03 translates all double quotes
to the single quote character to avoid this problem.
3. A new file type "RNA" has been added to the File Open dialog box.
In addition, there is a new score file "iupac.scr" which includes
'U' as a valid sequence character (treated exactly like a 'T') as
well as all of the IUB-IUPAC ambiguity codes. This should be used
as a replacement for the old "DNAxxx.scr" files, which only accepted
'G', 'A', 'T', and 'C'. DNA and RNA sequences may be mixed in a
single alignment.
4. The "Search Results" was previously a modal dialog box, meaning that
the windows behind it were inactivated until the dialog was dismissed
by pressing the "Done" button. It is now modeless, so it is possible
to go back to the schematic or alignment windows while the window is
open.