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From: rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DA's  WON'T  WORK  ...  HELP ... HELP ...
Message-ID: <32599@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Jun 89 04:35:12 GMT
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Here's another possible senario to the "DAs won't work" problem.  I have
found that in certain situations with certain memory hungry INITs, DA handler
refuses to load any DAs in Multifinder.  The fix is weird, but simple.
Open ResEdit, and have it open DA handler.  Find the "SIZE" resource, and
open it. Scroll to the bottom of the resource that appears in front of you
and you will see how much memory DA handler asks the system for, a *tiny*
16K.  You may play around with various higher memory sizes that may suit you.
On my system, I was forced to allocate 120K, since on my machine, the first
3.3 megabytes is taken by System, Multifinder, and all my INITs. believe it 
or not, yes my system still works.  Although no one seems to want to borry
my mac for anything... ;)

--Rick Ewing
  Apple Atlanta
  REWING@APPLE.COM