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From: llama@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joe Francis)
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Subject: Re: C++/MacApp questions
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Date: 28 Sep 90 15:29:30 GMT
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In article <1990Sep28.130509.22350@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Steve Dorner writes:

>I find it practically
>impossible to get anything done on my SE/30 with a compiler running in
>the background.  And heaven help me once the linker starts up ("Open files?
>YOU don't need to open files, I, the Great Linker, want them ALL!").

I too had this latter problem, but it can be fixed by editing the boot
block of your startup volume.  Fedit+ does this nicely, or you can use
any of a variety of shareware goodies.

>Of the two machines I have, the black one with the geometric shape does much
>the better job at multitasking.  And System 7 isn't going to fix THAT.

Maybe timeslicing is better, but cooperative multitasking will always be 
NEAT-O!

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