Release Notes for Version 1.06 of Suppose:
N.L.Crookston RMRS-Moscow, March 24, 1998

Last revision of these notes: March 24, 1998

Changes from version 1.06 to 1.07:

1. Bare Ground support:

A Bare Ground button was added to Select Simulation Stands.  This
button will create a bare ground stand and add it to baregrnd.slf
(which is created if it does not exist).  If baregrnd.slf is not
referenced in the suppose.loc, it is automatically added.

If no suppose.loc is found when the Select Simulation Stands window is
opened, then the user is given the choice of selecting a locations
file or Suppose will automatically create one.  If one is
automatically created, Suppose will look for baregrnd.slf and add it
to the suppose.loc.  If no baregrnd.slf is found, one is created.

When Suppose creates a bare ground stand, it leaves all the site
information blank.  Users can add some keywords (StdInfo or ModType,
for example) to specify the site data or use the Edit Stand List File
tool.

2. If the user edits an slf or locations file when the Select
Simulations Stands window is opened, Suppose now automatically updates
the contents of the Select Simulations Stands window. Prior to this
change, users were required to close this window and reopen it to make
the changes in the locations or slf files to take effect.

3. The 8 character long stand ID within FVS has limited the utility of
the generate graphs and generate report facilities of Suppose.  To
address this problem, Suppose now reads an "untruncated" version of
the stand ID when it scans the FVS output.  As a result, the stand IDs
displayed in the "Case" identifications is exactly the same stand ID
used to identify the stand in the stand list file (.slf) (unless the
user changes the stand ID using the Change Group Membership window in
which case the name the user enters is used).

4. A new variable, called "StandID", has been added to the Summary
Statistics report.  The variable is constant over all years.  The use
for this variable is to provide a simple way for Generate Report users
to get a meaningful identification code into tables that are
subsequently "pasted" into other applications.


5. Yet another small change to the suppose.prm file was made to
correct access to the snags file used by the fvs2svs post procssing
program (I hope I have it this time!).  Like all issues, this one may
be revisited.

*** Note: I'm still waiting for some bug fixes to the latest version
    of XVT (the tool kit on which Suppose is built) prior to moving to
    a Win32 release.  The new version has several desirable features 
    but we can't use them until they all work!  So, This MAY be the 
    last version of Suppose that supports Win16 (Windows 3.1) windows.
    Future versions will require Win32 (Windows 95/NT).