Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: sys disk 5.0 uhoh
Message-ID: <33753@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Aug 89 06:47:18 GMT
References: <13247@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <33725@apple.Apple.COM> <13266@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <13266@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
[...]
>I get the title page, and loading stops. No bells, just frozen. The
>interrupt to enable the control panel is killed, but the 3.5 drive
>eject button works. Pressing ^-reset reboots. I can't really give
>better details as I have no utilities like background debuggers or
>whatnot.
>
>I slowly deactivated DAs, and Appleworks once again works with 575k
>free. I thought that AW only needed 128k (or even as little as 64k) to
>run. What gives?

Are you certain it's the *amount* of memory that's the problem?  Could
it be a particular NDA, instead?  AW 2.0 calls DeskStartup, which gives
every NDA a chance to crash or hang your system.  Matt says he already
answered this message, so I'll stop being redundant now.

>I've noticed other (very minor) bugs with 5.0. If one makes a
>selection box in the Finder very small (less than a few pixels wide or
>high) the box isn't a box, but rather some sort of mess.

Not a bug--DragRect and WindDragRect now draw 4 separate lines instead
of framing rectangles.  This apparently keeps the cursor from flickering
in some circumstances.  Anyway, because of the way the 4 lines overlap at
the ends, it makes it look different at the corners, especially when the
rectangle is so small that there is nothing there but corners.

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