Known Bugs and Problems in PaleoMag v 2.3.1beta2

(seems to now work!): Cannot drag windows across multiple screens (this is a Microsoft QuickBasic bug; short of rewriting the code to use very low level Mac calls, this will not be fixed until the compiler is upgraded).
"Extras..." dialog (and a couple others) still does not display the text background all the time; if all you see are boxes with text inside, hit "Cancel" and then reopen "Extras...". This has always worked in the past.
Using the "Identify Points" ability can produce a mess in the corner of the plot where the identification is posted when using colors.
PaleoMag does not refresh screens when in the background.
It appears v2.0 and later does not work on a Mac Plus. Unfortunately I do not use such a machine; the code does run pretty well on SEs, SE/30s, IIs, IIcis, and Quadra 700s. It will not run on machines with 32-bit addressing turned on. This is a compiler bug and isn't likely to be fixed until the program is ported to another language.
Don't try to add system-7 features (like Balloon Help)--it doesn't work (send a nasty letter to Microsoft).
The number of samples/directions shown on the screen when various statistics are displayed can be incorrect if line and plane data are combined. The uncertainties, though, should be correct.
Copying plots to the clipboard is getting to be tougher and tougher--it seems that PaleoMag (through the QuickBasic calls) is not doing something quite right. MacDraw Pro and related programs seem to read these clipboard contents ok; Canvas seems to have trouble. An option is to print to a PICT file using the shareware utility Print2PICT; another is to print to a PostScript file and use epsConverter (shareware) to convert this into an Adobe Illustrator 3 file.

Craig Jones, cjones@mantle.colorado.edu