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- GoldVarb 1.4
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-
- GoldVarb 1.4 differs greatly from previous versions of GoldVarb,
- although the changes may not be obvious. The two most important
- modifications are:
-
- • documents can now be of arbitrary length (although of course
- limited by the amount of memory in the Macintosh you are using)
- whereas they were previously limited to about 32K. Reading
- tokens from an external file is no longer supported because
- no longer needed -- you just open the file and process it on
- screen.
-
- • A new file type (with its own icon) is now used for results, and
- these result files are now treated similarly to the other three
- types of files. That is, commands such as “New…”, “Open…”,
- “Import…”, “Close”, “Save…” & “Save as…” work similarly for
- all four file types. When you execute a command which generates
- results (such as cell loading or varbrul), the results are
- simply appended to the end of the current result document (if
- already open on screen). This means you end up with everything
- contained in a single result file (unless you prefer to split
- things up), rather than a proliferation of files with various
- titles. (By the way, the file you are now reading is a
- so-called result file, prepared using GoldVarb 1.4).
-
-
- Two important things have NOT changed:
-
- • Varbrul calculations are performed as before. And the
- multinomial case (more than two application values) has still
- not been implemented.
-
- • The “Recode setup…” dialog box, first implemented in version
- 1.3 (which became obsolete one nanosecond after it was created)
- is the same in version 1.4. It is quite complicated and has
- not been fully tested, so it will probably undergo some
- evolution in the very new future.
-
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- Have you used previous versions of GoldVarb?
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-
- If not then you can skip the following discussion.
-
- Because of the introduction of the new file type, you may have
- some trouble with your token files and the way they appear (i.e. the
- icon) in the Finder. Token files used to be of type 'TEXT', but
- that appellation is now used for result files so token files are now
- of type 'TOKN'. This means that old token files will appear with
- the wrong icon after you install GoldVarb 1.4, because the Finder
- will think they are result files. (By the way, condition and cell
- files are of Finder type 'COND' & 'CELL' respectively.)
-
- Here’s what you should do:
- • Remove any old version(s) of GoldVarb from your disk(s) and
- replace with the new version 1.4.
- • Change your token files from type 'TEXT' to type 'TOKN'. You
- can do this with ResEdit, or by importing them into GoldVarb 1.4
- and then saving, or, easiest of all, use the handy-dandy
- utility programme “DoctorTokens” which you should find on
- the same disquette as this file. Once you have changed all
- you old token files on all disks to type 'TOKN', you can
- throw the doctor away.
- • If after the above steps your token files still don’t say
- “Token” on the icon, you probably need to rebuild the desktop
- file (although this should, I believe, be unnecessary if you
- are using the most recent System/Finder released by Apple).
- To rebuild the desktop, eject your disk and then reinsert it
- while holding down both the Option & Command keys. If you’re
- working with a hard disk, you will have trouble inserting it
- into the little slot (ha ha) -- just reboot from the hard disk,
- holding down the 2 keys as the Mac starts up.
- (By the way, the desktop file contains any comments you may
- have typed into the little box in the “Get Info…” window
- which the Finder displays, and these comments will be lost
- if you rebuild. You will not lose default comments, i.e.
- those which the Finder reads from the file its getting info
- about.)
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