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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FREE Month of PRODIGY, On-Line Service and Software
Message-ID: <5633@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 89 17:54:25 GMT
References: <244@ide.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <244@ide.UUCP> mallory@ide.UUCP (Kevin Mallory) writes:
>I think this is ridiculous!  After much futzing around it does work, with
>ALL of my inits (INCLUDING a screen saver), ram cache on, and on the hard
>disk.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work with Multifinder.

The first thing I did when I got the software was to figure out why it
crashed under MultiFinder.  It turns out the problem is that they allocate
a 280K or so non-relocatable block when you try to connect, and don't check
to see if this succeeds.  The program has no SIZE resource, so its default
partition size is 384K.   If you increase the partition size to 750K, then
it will work.

You won't be able to switch out of the program, since they don't support
menus.  However, if you have >1 screen, you will be able to click in
windows on the other screen.  That would be a big mistake because Prodigy
doesn't handle suspend/resume or update events, and part of what they do to
take over the screen is to remove the menu bar and to modify the low memory
GrayRgn.  (In the latter case they replace the region handle with a region
in their heap, which means if the application crashes GrayRgn will be
invalid.)

You can prevent any switches by using ResEdit to change the WIND/130
resource in the program.  Set the procID to 1, to make it a modal dialog.

>the message had been LOCKED for replies.  When I asked for an explanation
>of why it was "locked for replies". I was told that it wasn't locked.
>When I went back to try to reply again, I found that it was GONE (along

This is pretty sad.  I had thought that Prodigy was open-minded about this,
sine they were allowing people to post messages talking about America
Online.  -- 
		 Larry Rosenstein,  Object Specialist
 Apple Computer, Inc.  20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B  Cupertino, CA 95014
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