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Path: blue.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!news.uwa.edu.au!newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au!numbat!hinchlif From: hinchlif@numbat.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: AppleWorks 5 bug fix (important) Date: 10 Jan 1995 00:31:45 GMT Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3eskhhINNpmq@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: numbat.murdoch.edu.au Keywords: database AppleWorks 5 has two new important features in the database module: - it supports the creation of different Single Record Layouts from multiple Labels-style reports, and - it supports the addition of background text in both the layouts and the reports themselves. This background text can be normal, inverse or MouseText. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the factory edition of AppleWorks 5 which prevents the saving of a DB file which has more than one labels-style report containing background text. Any attempt to save such a file results in the program crashing irretrievably. I reported this to Randy Brandt, and he came back to me with the following patch, courtesy of Dan Verkade. This patch has also been posted to GEnie in the form of a BASIC program. Using a disk editor, change the following bytes in SEG.AW: Offset AW 5.0 Should Be ------- ------ --------- 47C6 2D 20 47E6 20 3F 47E7 6F A9 32 8D BA 5C AD AA 77 60 4F30 AD 20 5B 55 You will now be able to save DB files properly with all new features fully supported. This is the only real bug I have been able to find in what looks like the cleanest, not to mention the best, version of AppleWorks ever produced. Peter Hinchliffe -->hinchlif@numbat.murdoch.edu.au WAppleII, Inc. Perth, Western Australia