[Ham-Mac] MacOS 10.12 Sierra Public Beta and fldigi-3.23.12

[Richard Prather]

Working fine for me on my Mac mini (late 2012) with my K3.

Rick
K6LE


> On 7/8/2016, at 10:57 , Richard Kriss <aa5vu at arrl.net> wrote:
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> Heads up for fldigi users trying the new macOS 10.12 Public Beta
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>> http://osxdaily.com/2016/07/07/download-install-macos-sierra-public-beta/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+osxdaily+(OS+X+Daily) <http://osxdaily.com/2016/07/07/download-install-macos-sierra-public-beta/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29>
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>> I installed the macOS public beta on a test partition and one of my first tests was with fldigi. The good news is fldigi-3.23.12 starts, decodes and transmits normal. The bad news is I could not get rig control to “Initialize" and as result fldigi could not display the frequency of my TS-590SG.  The same version of fldigi works fine with Mac OS 10.11.5.
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> I reported this to Dave, W1HKJ, and he is unable to verify the issue as his test Mac Mini is not supported by the new macOS. 
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> Try macOS if you wish but be sure you have a good OS X backup.
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> 73 Dick AA5VU