October 17, 1998

Dear OKScript user,

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It is not uncomon for anomalous behavior to be uncovered
in the first days following a software release, particularly 
when there are few independent testers exercizing a 
broad spectrum of feature interactions. And so it is with the
first two weeks of OKScript 4.0 distribution. Here is the list
of issues for this period. If these issues affect your
scripts you can download the latest revision from
http://home1.gte.net/yweare. Your existing license
will automatically be active on the new software if you
install it to the same directory, otherwise you will
have to re-enter the registration data (or copy the
okscript.ini file from the previous version.) The current
version is dated October 17. See Help | About to determine
the date of your copy of OKScript. This list
is ordered in (approximate) order of significance.

1. Literal (in {braces}) metacharacters are not properly
   sent in the PUT, BUTTON and MENU instructions.
   Thus "PUT 16{+}" would send only "16", missing the "+".
   This affects "+","^","~" and "%" transmission and HAS
   been fixed (Oct 17.) To work around this problem you
   can define a macro for the character and use it, thus:

   MACRO plus {+}
   PUT 16%plus%

2. A bug involving non-US date formats has been corrected.
   This often appeared on program startup and when registering.

3. The PLAG/GALP feature occasionally missed an instruction.
   Status: fixed.

4. Various editor operations (beautify, search & replace, space removal)
   on large scripts (> 32k, a quite large script) would
   occasionallycorrupt the file. (This only pertains to the 32 bit
   OKScript - the 16 bit version only supports file sizes to 32k.) Status:
   fixed.

5. Some subtle "look and feel" characteristics of the buttons in
   a panel were refined, particularly having to do with right-clicking a
   button.

6. A menu panel sizing bug was corrected.

7. Text in the editor will sometimes be incorrectly redrawn when typing 
   into the middle of a line and the end of the line over-runs the right
   edge of the window. This seems to be a cosmetic error, the data is
   correctly entered into the buffer. Drag the edge of the window out a
   bit to correct the rendering. Status: investigating.

Your ideas and problem reports *are* appreciated. You can email 
them to me or post them to the message board that I have set
up at my web site. Thank you for using OKScript. 

Michael Mardesich