🚀 go-pugleaf

I've had some resolution of the problems previously reported to all the
loyal MacInTax fans in this group.  Thanks are due to the ChipSoft tech
support people, for responding by phone to my several faxed problem reports
(the only way to report bugs free to them is via 800- number fax), not so
much because they solved the problem, but because talking with them 
crystallized the problem for me--and I was able to isolate the bug for them.

1) Installation problems.  No resolution here, yet.  Read on, folks.  Experience
shows that problems were not caused by init conflicts, etc.

2) Problems importing forms from HeadStart.  In the case of at least one
form (8829), here is what happens:
- You see two alert boxes warning you that an error has occurred, but not
  precisely telling you what the error was.
- You go in there, poke around to try and find what forms are missing.
- You get to Schedule C, double click on line (30?) to access form 8829, and
  nothing is there.
- You use this nice spiffy "Open Forms" dialog box to try to get to the 8829.
  It isn't there.  It never is, only an 8829 summary.  This is normal.  What
  is not normal is that the 8829 Summary line does not show that it is in use.
  It isn't in use, and if you open it, you will find it blank and not pointing
  to your old HeadStart 8829.
- Ahhh...so you go back to the old "Active Forms" dialog box, an ugly dinosaur
  left over from last year's version.  Voila.  There is your old 8829.  But it
  is not a /normal/ 8829.  It is called "8829:Expenses for Business Use...",
  not "8829(1):Expenses...".  This is because
            MacInTax has read in your old form, correctly as far as I can
            tell, but not linked it to anything.  The values on it do not
            propagate to other forms.  The program knows it's there, but can't
            use it.
I've reported this problem to ChipSoft.  They have not yet responded.
Anyone else who gets those alerts boxes would do well to try finding
their data the same way.. Report it to ChipSoft, and good luck.
-- 
- ted crane, alias (tc)                  tedcrane@cs.cornell.edu