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From: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need info on multitasking capabilities on the mac
Message-ID: <1487@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Nov 89 17:42:10 GMT
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Reply-To: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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In article <9071@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>If you start an upload and then go into StuffIt to extract information
>from the file you just downloaded, StuffIt will refuse to give any time
>to the rest of the system until it completes, and your upload will time
>out.  This is more of a problem, and it *is* an intrinsic problem that
>can only be solved with time-sliced multitasking.

While not disagreeing with the very valid point you're making, Tim, you
malign StuffIt.  There's an option in the preferences dialogue (yes,
I'm English) to tell StuffIt to allow time to background tasks.

Jeremy Roussak