Re: Appleworks 5.0 -- crashes my IIgs!

[Peter Hinchliffe <hinchlif@numbat>]

On 3 Apr 1995, Eric S. Ford wrote:

> 
> In a previous article, hinchlif@numbat (Peter Hinchliffe) says:
> 
> >I have a ROM 01, 4 Mb, System 6.0.1, Apple High Speed SCSI, 8/16 ZipGS. I 
> >have never had a problem with AppleWorks 5, apart from encountering one 
> >or two well-documented bugs which have now been well and truly stomped.
> 
> I wasn't aware all of the bugs had been squashed.  The one I'm
> still plagued with is the crash under GS/OS whenever you re-enter AW 5.0.
> Is there a fix/patch out that I'm not aware of?

There is supposedly a fix for that in the Randy's Free Patcher program 
which comes with AW5, and also a program called Bev's Free Patcher 
(available from Kingwood Micro Products). I haven't been able to get 
either of them to work reliably - sometimes they do, sometimes not. I 
just don't bother anymore and simply run AW5 from ProDOS 8. It's a faster 
startup anyway. The bug squash is apparently identical to the one used in 
AW4.3 (according to Randy Brandt). It worked just fine in AW4.3, but it's 
flakey in AW5.

A major bug which _has_ been squashed involved saving DB files which have 
background text in more than one report. It can't be done in the factory 
version, but the fix has been published in c.s.a2 before, and is 
available from GEnie. If you want it I'll post it again. This bug will 
certainly be removed in version 5.1.