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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What can't it do? (StuffIt in background???)
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.043050.8494@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 90 04:30:50 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State University
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by russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto):
| pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes:
|>
|>It's even more of a misnomer than you think.
|>When you switch between applications with Multi-Finder, the
|>application you WERE using goes to sleep.  I may be mistaken
|>here, I don't get to use Multi-Finder very often because none
|>of the Macs that I work on have enough memory.  (If I am I'm
|>sure someone will point it out :-)
| 
| You ARE mistaken, as anyone who has downloaded a file, decoded a Stuffit file,
| and used Microsoft Word all at the same time knows.

[blah blah blah blah]

  Actually, a program has to tell MultiFinder to give it background
time. (Setting the appropriate bit(s) in the SIZE resource.) Most apps
have nothing useful to do in the background most of the time so they
don't ask for background time and thus are actually asleep. Also, apps
written before MF don't get any background time.
  Have you really decoded a stuffit file and done something else t the
time? I have found that StuffIt (1.5.1) is a cpu hog like nobody's
business and pretty much locks up the machine. Is there something I
missed?

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