Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!spdcc!mirror!rayssd!galaxia!mrsoft!mrr From: mrr@mrsoft.Newport.RI.US (Mark Rinfret) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: How do I expand system heap from an INIT? Message-ID: Date: 15 Aug 90 10:29:03 GMT References: <1717@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Lines: 21 >In article <1717@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> mneerach@a.inf.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes: > >The new & improved way to do this is to insert a resource of type 'sysz' >into your INIT file. This resource contains, I think, a longword, containing >the amount by which to grow the system heap. The easiest way to get a correct >'sysz' resource is to steal one. Most bigger INITs have one. > I did, in fact, attempt this prior to using the "horror show" approach. As I understand it, "sysz" consists of a single longword containing the amount of additional heap required. I created one (after examining another) and it didn't have any lasting effect. Do you have explicit documentation for the correct use of sysz? Mark -- ################################################################# # Mark R. Rinfret, MRSoft Home: 401-846-7639 # # mrr@mrsoft, galaxia!mrsoft!mrr Work: 401-849-9930 x301 # #################################################################