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From: ralph@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Ralph Brandi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacDraw II Problems ...
Keywords: MacDraw II, Bugs ?
Message-ID: <2193@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:42:29 GMT
References: <6167@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: ralph@lzfme.ATT.COM (Ralph Brandi)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Commercial Art
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In article <6167@tank.uchicago.edu> scb1@tank.uchicago.edu (Sam Blackman) writes:
>Got a question concerning Claris MacDraw II (version 1.1).  When it runs on my
>SE/20 with 1 Mb, I've got no problems, however, if I try to make it run on my
>Mac IIcx with it's 5Mb memory, I get an error message when trying to open
>multiple files, or even a new document over an existing one.  What's even more
>confusing is that it's a "Not enough memory to open a new document" error.
>
>Has anybody seen this ?  Has anybody got an ideas as to what to do ?

OK, since you didn't provide the information, I have to assume that
you're running the SE under the regular Finder, and the IIcx under
MultiFinder, since that's what any sane person would do.  And here
is the root of your problem.  If you do a `Get Info' on the program
(choose the program, then either choose the `Get Info' item from the
menu or hit command-I), at the bottom there will be a box showing
how much memory is reserved for the application.  This is only
applicable under MultiFinder.  Change the number in the box to a
larger number.  Close the Get Info box.  Restart the application.
If you have added enough memory to the reserved amount, you should
be able to do what you want.

The problem is that under MultiFinder, this number is the amount of
memory reserved for the program when it runs, so you only get the
benefit of that much memory, not the full 5MB you have in the
machine.  Under the regular Finder, you get all the memory that's
left in the machine.  That's why the SE seems to have more memory
than the IIcx.


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