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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Simple MPW question
Message-ID: <43166@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 90 00:04:10 GMT
References: <9170@goofy.Apple.COM> <19129@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) writes:

>To set the suggested heap size for a program, include in its resource fork
>a resource of type=SIZE, id=-1. You can edit these guys in ResEdit, and it is 
>usually easier to copy one from some other application than to create it 
>from scratch. The documentation in it is in the Multifinder material available
>from APDA.
>-- 
>-- David Phillip Oster - Note new address. Old one has gone Bye Bye.
>-- oster@well.sf.ca.us = {backbone}!well!oster

You should create a SIZE resource with an ID of 0, not -1.  -1 is created by
MultiFinder for YOUR PREFERRED size from the SIZE 0 resource.

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