Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!jay
From: jay@ut-emx.UUCP (Jay Boisseau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Weird problem with VersaTerm 4.0
Keywords: problem in MultiFinder
Message-ID: <23269@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 05:49:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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I just experienced a weird problem with VersaTerm 4.0.  I tried to launch it
on my 4 Mb SE with MS Word 4.0 already loaded in to MF, and I got a dialog
box telling me there wasn't enough Finder memory.  I thought this ridiculous,
so I checked the About Finder... item, and saw that I should have had PLENTY
of memory.  I rebooted, and tried to launch Versaterm FIRST (nothing else open
in MF), and got the same message.  The About Finder... box informed me that I
still had over 3 Mb of RAM available in my largest block!  What was going on?

I checked the Get Info box for VersaTerm, and, to my surprise, BOTH the
"Suggested Memory Size" and "Application Memory Size" (in the little box) were
listed as "n/a".  I changed them to this, and the date of last modification
was last summer!  I didn't even know the former item ("Suggested Memory Size",
the item NOT in the little box), could ever change.  Panicking, I replaced
the VersaTerm application with a copy from the original disk, and suddenly
everything worked--despite the fact that the date of last modification was
the same!  The"n/a" was now at its "normal" value.

Does anybody know what might have caused this?  I'm a little concerned that
something is trashing my software, but I have found no viruses.  Help!

Jay Boisseau
jay@emx.utexas.edu