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From: chuq@Apple.COM (The Wandering Phew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Help - System 6.0.5 & System Heap
Message-ID: <44891@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 90 19:49:08 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.193429.11738@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian Allen Levine) writes:

> I hear that there are
>problems with 6.0.5 and the system heap, however, and I'd like to know
>what I'm getting into before I actually do the upgrade.  

I keep hearing that story myself. I've never seen any proof, just the
rumors. And I know that I've run 6.0.5 on all my machines for a while with
no problems.

>I've also heard that there are
>several PD/Shareware programs that can fix (enlarge?  by how much?) the
>system heap, but I don't know what they are called or how to get them.

I know of three. Widgets and Heapfixer are both by CE Software. neither is
PD/Shareware -- they're for the use of their customers (avilable on the
Disktop or QuickMail disks, among others). I've also see a shareware CDEV
(name something like System Heap sizer) that is on GEnie. It was so
obnoxious and noisy about the shareware fee it didn't last 10 minutes on my
hard disk, though (there is a big difference between asking for shareware
and badgering for it. If a program makes itself obnoxious, it gets uninvited
from my system and I don't keep it around long enough to decide if it's
worth spending money on).

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