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- RELEASE NOTES
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- Release notes for version 1.01, released 4-16-91
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 6. The Autokeep option now only keeps blocks when they are linked. This
- reduces the accumulation of too many useless blocks.
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- Release notes for version 1.02, released 5-10-91
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- 1. When printing the blocks, the value of m reported was wrong. This
- bug has been fixed.
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- 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.
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- Release notes for version 1.03, released 8-01-91
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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