MacWise - Macintosh Terminal Emulation - telnet / serial for OS X - Wyse, Viewpoint, VT100, VT220

MacWise for OS 9

Version History

1/1/96
1.0 Initial release
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1/17/96
1.01 Added programmable numeric keypad keys to top row. Also, programmable page up/page down and home keys (keys are programmed from the host in Wyse 60 mode only).
Wyse 60 emulation is now remembered when you quit. Was defaulting back to Wyse 50.
Small icon was fixed to now say MacWise.
Control L now works.
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1/18/96
1.02
Wyse 60 Individual programmed keys can now be cleared by the host.
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1/24/96
1.03
Support graphic characters in IBM character set as well as Mac set.
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2/16/96
1.04
If window was closed by clicking on close box, you could not open the window again.
Fixed. (only was a problem in non-CommToolBox mode).
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2/18/96
1.05
Support for automatic file receiving with Zmodem CommToolBox tools. (Zmodem tools not included with MacWise but supported).
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3/20/96
1.06
1. ESC z now suported for fkey label line.
2. Fixed window refresh problems caused by Now Reminder.
3. Add support for ESC c Wyse 60 graphic characters.
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3/21/96
1.07
Added support for Wyse Multinational graphic characters.
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3/25/96
1.08
Don't turn printer on if ESC 3 and Wyse 50 mode.
If alternate shifted fkey command received, cancel unshifted.
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3/26/96
1.09
Fix Multiplex printing problems.
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4/2/96
1.10
Added option to pass control characters to the printer.
Fixed International characters for IBM set so that all countries work in 8-bit mode (8th bit not stripped).
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4/3/96
1.11
Fixed protected characters so that spaces are not protected.
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4/4/96
1.12
Fixed protected characters text wrap.
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4/11/96
1.13
MacWise would sometimes hang after you quit and restarted the program.
Caused by version 1.10
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4/18/96
1.14
Ajust window size if Aaron is installed.
Added ESC ~ q to turn off printer
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4/19/96
1.15
If Ignore Printer Off Commands was selected in Printer Setup, the display would not come back on during a print job until the print dialog box came on the screen.
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4/22/96
1.16
Turn graphics mode off when opening new window.
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5/4/96
1.17
If "New Line on Receipt of LF" was enabled in the Capture Menu, Carriage Returns would not be sent to the printer or a capture file if the line was exactly 80 columns wide.
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5/26/96
1.19
Added an option for Telnet Interupt Process as a Break.
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6/24/96
1.20
Fix Clear Line for protect fields
Fix Insert Character and Delete Character to shift the line left or right.
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6/27/96
1.21
Could not send control L from keyboard in Wyse mode. Fixed
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6/28/96
1.22
Allow Delete key to be re-programmed by host for Wyse 60 mode.
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7/11/96
1.23
Support shifted fkey text on screen. Prevent extra screen refresh when fkey text displayed.
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7/17/96
1.24
Send Wyse 60 terminal ID if host requests it.
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7/23/96
1.25
Fix registration problem.
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8/18/96
1.26
Don't support ESC 3 and ESC 4 for printer on/off in Wyse mode. Only for Viewpoint.
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8/18/96
1.29
CTBSettings could sometimes get corrupted and cause hang during MacWise startup.
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10/9/96
1.30
Unimplemented trap error with System 6. Was caused by version 1.14 aaron test.
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10/24/96
1.31
Support ESC Z for Wyse 60 programmable fkeys. Was only supporting ESC z
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11/7/96
1.32
Don't allow Delete Capture File to delete the defaults file.
Support 8-bit graphics.
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11/30/96
1.33
Fix Viewpoint and Wyse 50 graphics broken in version 1.32
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1/3/97
1.34
Fix Command 2 flow control.
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1/8/97
1.35
Added option in Printer Setup to print the screen as text. Also, included MacWiseFont for printing graphic characters. (prior to this version, screens could only be printed graphically.)
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1/17/97
1.36
Lasso text could get the line of data above the lassoed area as well as the lassoed text.
Changed highlighting to only highlight text that will be copied to clipboard.
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1/22/97
1.37
If continuous data was being sent from the host, you could not click on the desktop to activate another application.
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2/14/97
1.38
Ignore ESC . commands
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2/15/97
2.0
TeleVideo TV925 emulation now supported.
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2/16/97
2.01
TeleVideo Message attributes
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2/17/97
2.02
Support TeleVideo host-programmed keys.
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2/23/97
2.03
Paste would sometimes not echo back all characters to the screen at 38400 baud.
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2/25/97
2.04
Support Shift-Tab for Wyse and TV925
Support Insert Character
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2/28/97
2.05
If you turned off the Capture Sound, it would turn back on when you re-started the program.
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3/2/97
2.06
Support the Home key for Wyse and TV925 (Viewpoint Home has always worked).
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3/3/97
2.07
Fix down arrow key in TV925
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3/4/97
2.08
Fix possible crashes with System 7.6 due to resource purging.
Support End key for TV925
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3/5/97
2.09
Two insert commands from host would erase character on second insert.
Command 3 now clears buffer and sends control C.
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3/19/97
2.10
Use Chicago font for status window in System 8. Also, center window correctly allowing for larger System 8 window frames.
Hidden Attributes was not being remembered when you quit. Caused by version 2.0
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3/24/97
2.11
First unprotected character was not clearing a previously protected character.
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4/2/97
2.12
Hitting a function key more than once real fast would not send the fkey command a second time. Fixed.
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4/3/97
2.13
Fixed shifted fkeys broken with version 2.12
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4/9/97
2.14
Turn off underline if dim code received.
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4/11/97
2.15
If you tried to do a paste and the clipboard contained any lines longer than 256 characters, the paste operation would stop. Now can have unlimited line size in clipboard for pasting.
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5/12/97
2.20
Add Wyse 370 emulation and graphic characters.
Also, fix intermittent slave printing problem.
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5/13/97
2.21
If CommToolBox was in use then Video Attributes menu item was disabled.
Caused by version 2.20
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5/28/97
2.24
Fix CommToolBox "Out of Memory" error when switching to CommToolBox.
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6/6/97
2.25
Fix CommToolBox not remembering settings when you Quit. Caused by 2.24
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6/16/97
2.26
Save Printing was dropping characters. Caused by 2.24
Added Esprit III color for Wyse 370.
Fixed Insert Line refresh problems.
Lasso text to clipboard was inserting extra carriage return after last line.
(caused by version 2.15)
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6/18/97
2.27
Protected fields in Wyse 370 Esprit mode were getting erased when clearing unprotected sections of the screen. Fixed.
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6/18/97
2.28
Messages sent to 25th line cause cursor positioning problems when returning to main screen if not in Wyse 370 Esprit mode.
Caused by 2.24
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6/19/97
2.30
Speed up Esprit Color screens. Make sure correct arrow keys are used when in Xymox mode.
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6/19/97
2.31
Clearing the message line did not return cursor back to correct position.
Caused by 2.24
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6/20/97
2.32
If fkeys were hidden, clearing the message line would also clear the line the cursor was on. Caused by 2.24
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6/24/97
2.34
Fix colors in Xymox Booking screen caused by protected field clearing.
Apply correct Xymox settings to CommToolBox settings.
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6/26/97
2.35
Make Alternate Fkey message line at bottom of screen default to green reverse color when in Xymox or Wyse 370 Esprit mode.
Increase green and red to full intensity.
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6/26/97
2.36
Make Alternate Fkey message line slide colors to the right.
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7/3/97
2.38
If the MacWise window was closed when you quit in the CommToolBox mode, the next time you ran MacWise, it would hang the Mac and get a CommToolBox error.
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7/14/97
3.0
You can now save captured text as a Netscape or Internet Explorer html document.
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7/17/97
3.01
Fix Inverse spaces that were not positioned correctly on screen.
Was sending a carriage return upon startup even if Carriage Return Upon Startup was not checked in Special Menu.
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7/25/97
3.02
Fix Xymox Booking Screen broken in version 2.39
Also, Do not protect spaces when protect mode is enabled.
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7/29/97
3.04
Was not remembering Previous Page Options when you quit.
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8/3/97
3.05
Center windows properly for OS8. Change light gray color to match OS8 gray.
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9/26/97
3.06
Screen would not refresh if Ansi Colors was on in VT100 mode.
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11/4/97
3.08
Some VT100 text characters would show up as graphic characters if Upper Case.
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11/14/97
3.09
Some VT100 text characters would show up as graphic characters if graphic mode was left on and screen cleared.
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1/30/98
3.10
ESC + was not turning off Protected fields for Wyse and Viewpoint. It does now.
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3/5/98
3.11
multiple escapes sent from the host would display garbage in Wyse and Viewpoint emulations.
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3/17/98
3.20
Year-2000 compliant.
Also, if demo expired, CommtoolBox would be corrupted if in use.
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3/18/98
3.21
If New Session Window selected with Wyse 370 emulation, Open Dialog box would appear.
GV 56K modem would not dial in non-commtoolbox mode.
Added delay between characters in dialing string.
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4/7/98
3.22
Changed some radio buttons to checkboxes.
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4/9/98
3.23
Added video attribute option "Carriage Return Does Not Reset Normal Text"
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4/12/98
3.24
If Remember Window Position was checked and Hide Status Window was checked, the status window would not be hidden but would be blank.
If Remember Window Position was checked and Limit Screen Depth to 24 lines was unchecked, the window size would not be remembered. This was a problem for people with 25-line screens because it would always default back to a 24-line window size when you ran the program again.
Status Window was not being hidden when loading new CTB settings file.
If the window was closed and Hide Status Window was selected, a blank window would open with no border.
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6/3/98
3.26
Beep was not working in VT100 emulation mode.
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8/1/98
3.27
Hidden status window caused error 4 upon quit if multiple windows were open.
Also, if two session windows were open and the serial window had xon/xoff enabled and the tcp window had xon/xoff disabled and you switched from the serial window to the tcp window, xon would be sent to the tcp host and you would have to do a control Q to get it back.
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9/7/98
3.28
VT100 emulation fix. Also, modify VT100 Fkeys to support F1 thru F10.
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9/20/98
3.29
Another VT100 emulation fix.
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10/5/98
3.31
Fix Wyse video attributes.
Added Inverse/bold
Also, if any attribute is selected then all other attributes are
cancelled.
This also affects Viewpoint and TV925 emulation.
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10/11/98
3.32
Fix memory corruption problem when using Wyse 370 and Esprit III color with Metropolis host.
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10/25/98
3.34
Give a unique creator ID to MacWise (MWse).
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11/18/98
3.35
Wyse 60 emulation was not being remembered when you quit if you were in the
non-CommToolBox mode.
Hidden Status window not being remembered when you quit.
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11/18/98
3.36
Televideo 925 aux printing codes now supported for non-transparent printing.
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12/29/98
3.37
ESC ! was clearing the screen when in Esprit III mode. Should only do that in Wyse mode.
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1/7/99
3.38
Aux printing was being activated during login when in Wyse 370 mode.
Caused by version 3.35
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2/2/99
3.39
Support Ins & Repl keys for Wyse and Viewpoint emulations.
Option-Shift I or Option-Shift Ins for Ins
Option-Shift R for Repl
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2/10/99
3.40
Support more ANSI color codes for VT100
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5/4/99
3.41
Wyse 60 arrow keys and enter key did not work in CommToolBox mode.
Caused by version 3.35
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5/5/99
3.42
Wyse 60 arrow keys and enter key did not work in CommToolBox mode when settings were saved or loaded.
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7/19/99
3.43
Send Escape T for End Key and Escape Y for shift End.
This was only being done for TV925 before but now works with Viewpoint, Wyse and TV925.
Also make end key programmable in Wyse 60 mode.
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9/1/99
4.0
20-page Scroll Back added.
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9/2/99
4.01
Page Up/Down keys were not paging a full page.
Page Up/Down and Option Up-Arrow/Down-Arrow did not work if you were in Xymox mode.
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9/3/99
4.02
If more than one clear screen received from host then only record one screen into scroll back.
(This prevents several blank pages appearing together in scroll back).
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9/20/99
4.03
If you turned on ANSI colors and got a Not Enough Memory message, the program could eventually hang.
Also, fixed protected field display problem that existed in versions 4.0 thru 4.02
Also, VT100 emulation would not switch from 80 to 132 column mode under host control.
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11/6/99
4.04
Previous page options were not being remembered correctly when you quit.
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12/22/99
4.05
Fix scrolling crash problem. It would crash on a Powerbook G3 with Password Security enabled if you ran MacWise and the screen scrolled before it had a chance to clear the screen.
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1/10/2000
4.06
Added 8-Point font to printer setup options.
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5/16/2000
4.09
Support Wyse Multinational graphics in IBM font set
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6/11/00
4.20
Support URL mouse clicks for email and browser.
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6/22/00
4.21
Added "Require Underlined URL Clicks" option to the Preferences Menu.
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9/27/00
4.22
Fixed VT100 emulation problem. ESC [00m
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10/7/00
4.23
Control E was sending Wyse insert sequence. Now sends Control E.
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11/27/00
4.25
Added Preference option to use the keypad for Wyse 60 edit keys.
This gives the top row of the keypad the same function as a Wyse 60 terminal.
Clear = / * becomes Ins Char, Del Char, Clr Line, Repl
With the shift key held down:
Clear = / * becomes Ins Line, Del Line, Clr Scrn, Ins
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11/27/00
4.26
Added Control Fkeys
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4/24/01
4.30
Fix registration problems with OS X. Previous versions would require you to re-register everytime you booted under OS 9 and then booted under OS X.
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9/7/01
4.32
Fix more registration problems with OS X.
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11/28/01
4.35
Yet another fix for OS X registration.
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12/27/01
4.36
Some Macs could get caught in a loop switching between the CommToolBox and non-ComToolBox modes.
Now, it will no longer try to force you into non-CommToolBox mode if there is a CommToolBox error.
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1/4/02
4.37
Fix printing problem with OS 9. Symtom usually was that the first page would print OK and then the rest of the pages would be blank or would come to the screen instead of printing to the printer. Symptoms might change depending on the font and font size you used in Printer Setup. Sometimes problem would only show up in a long print job. Possible crash during printing also.
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2/4/02
4.38
Another OS X registration fix.
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6/23/02
4.39
Fix possible memory leak during scrolling that might cause crash on some Macs.
Added feature to send a message alert to the Mac user from the host using
ESC ~ M ~ TextMessage CR
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12/19/02
4.40
Fix - Xymox preferences were not showing up in the Preferences Menu.
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2/5/03
4.41
Fix - If 16-Point font and large window were selected and you upgraded to a later version of MacWise, you could get an Unexpectedly Quit.

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2/28/2004
4.42
Fix - If settings files were trashed and re-created, Xymox menu would disappear.