Appleworks 5.1 update
By Andrew Roughan
Copyright (c) 1995 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
The Appleworks 5.1 update has been available for a few months now. It fixes a few bugs. The update is free and will be available from the Apple II BBS as well as the public domain library.
I found the time to install the update recently and had some trouble with the default macros. I wrote an email message directly to Randy to get his advice on the problem. I'm sure that anyone else who upgrades from 5.0 to 5.1 and who used the default macros under 5.0 will encounter the same problem, therefore I'll pass on the solution.
G'day Randy,
I've just installed AW 5.1 over AW 5.0 on my Hard Disk. I used Finder to copy all the files from the archive (including Timeout + Inits, excluding SEG.ER) into the relevant directories.
Now when I start AW, the Timeouts and Inits load fine, however, I get a message at the bottom of my main screen which says " Please Wait " in inverse and then below that: Place your AW STARTUP disk in a drive and press Return
I found this text in the default macros, so I then tried installing the new Timeouts and Inits using AW (as the Instructions say) and recompiling the macro source with the Ultra Compiler. So far, no luck.
I also tried removing the start macro from the source, however, this doesn't compile at all.
I don't particularly wish to reinstall from scratch.... Perhaps you can suggest another way?
Regards, Andrew
Randy Brandt replies:
It sounds like your default macros in SEG.UM are old, expecting the old .awpath command, which had a bug fixed in 5.1. That was a mistake, since more people than I realized are using the old default set.
If you compile the source, you have to save it as the default set, then restart. No reinstalling from scratch is required. Your only problem is that the SEG.UM default set from AW5 needs to be replaced with the new version.
Thank you Randy!
As it turns out, one of the bugs that was fixed by the v5.1 update rears its head in the auto-startup macro in the default macros that shipped with AppleWorks 5.0. The problem appeared because AppleWorks 5.1 treats a macro command slightly differently than 5.0 did. The solution is to replace the 5.0 default macros with the default macros which come with 5.1.
So here's the step by step:
The first task is to compile the source of the new default macros.
1. Ensure that the Ultra Compiler and Ultra Options selections appear in your TimeOut menu (press Open-Apple-<ESC> to check. If they don't, you can rectify the situation by Activating TimeOut from the TimeOut Options menu which can be found under the Select Standard Settings For Appleworks menu. You'll need to restart AppleWorks for this change to take effect.
2. Open the SEG.UM.source file in the word processor from the SOURCE directory that was created when you extracted the v5.1 update archive.
3. Select the "Ultra Compiler" from the TimeOut menu.
4. Select the "Compile a new set of macros" option from the Ultra Compiler menu
5. Reply "no" to the pause question and "beginning" to the position question. The macros should now compile into memory without any errors.
The next task is to replace the default macros in the SEG.UM file with the set that you have just compiled.
6. Select "Ultra Options" from the TimeOut menu.
7. Select "Save current macros As the default set" from the Ultra Options menu.
8. Reply "yes" to the activate auto-startup macro question.
That's all. You should now be able to restart AppleWorks without the above problem appearing. Instead the following message will display briefly:
Default macros successfully installed - press any key.

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