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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Determining whether MultiFinder is present
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Date: 11 Oct 90 10:04:40 GMT
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Larry Rosenstein asks what questions besides "Will Launch return?"
might people have that can not currently be answered without
asking if MF is running.

Here might be one.  Suppose my application runs out of memory.  If
Finder is running, it wants to say "Out of memory".  If MF is running,
it wants to see if it is running in a partition that is smaller than
the amount of memory not in the System heap, and if so, to tell the
user "Out of memory.  Try a bigger MF partition".

Is this something that is reasonable to want to do?  Is there a
good way to do this?
						Tim Smith