# ACEDB User Group Newsletter - October 2000

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Like last month, this month has been a month of bug fixes in preparation for the release of Acedb 4_9.

## New Features

### Acedb MS-Windows CD packaging improvements

The following improvements have been made to the `Install` process:

- - there's a new database wizard in the for the installation, it will install the acedb binaries and set up a new/empty default database.
- - the file extension ".wrm" is automatically registered with MS-Windows to be opened with MS-Windows Notepad as this is a suitable editor for altering them.
- - The latest Worm WS releases are now regularly packaged with the Acedb MS-Windows CD.

Coming soon - at the Acedb web site, a document on how to make windows packages, databases, cds, for acedb.

### URLs on Acedb MS-Windows

URLs in objects now work correctly in the MS-Windows version of acedb, the URL will be displayed by whichever program is registered with MS-Windows to deal with URLs (this might be Internet Explorer or maybe Netscape).

### ".wrm" files on Acedb MS-Windows

A problem with Unix vs. MS-Windows is that they signal the end of a line of text in a different way. This matters if you edit one of acedbs text files (e.g. models.wrm) on Windows and then try to edit again on a Unix machine. Acedb expects ".wrm" text files to use the Unix way of representing an end-of-line, but the MS-Windows version will also cope with the MS-Windows way of doing this. This means that Acedb will continue to work if you have editted your models.wrm file on an MS-Windows machine.

## Bugs Fixed

### "%" Dumping bug

acedb 4_8 had a bug whereby `"%"` signs within data in the database e.g. "GC content 48%" would not be dumped correctly because the `"%"` was read as a formatting instruction. This is now fixed.

### Incorrect ordering of output to screen under tace

Error messages in tace could get tangled with the `"acedb>"` prompt which was confusing. This has now been fixed.

### Loss of window focus

Sometimes when acedb popped up messages (warnings, information etc.), this could lead to the acedb losing the keyboard focus, i.e. any typing by the user would be lost. This is now fixed.

## No monthly build available.

Unfortunately, due to system problems at the Sanger Centre a monthly build has not been possible for September.

## Next User Group Meeting - D213, 2.30pm, Thursday, 12th October

Last modified: Mon May 21 15:39:43 BST 2001