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From: ABurton@massey.ac.nz (A.K. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: PageMaker 4.0 and MultiFinder
Message-ID: <1085@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 18 Oct 90 04:44:51 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.015932.25098@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: ABurton@massey.ac.nz (A.K. Burton)
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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In article <1990Oct16.015932.25098@midway.uchicago.edu> xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird) writes:
>Has anyone experienced a similar situation? I have a Mac IIci, 8 megs
>of RAM, running MultiFinder, MasterJuggler (with 6 or 7 or so font
>files) and a good handfull of inits and cdevs. When I start
>PageMaker 4.0 and try to access its spell checker, I get a message
>that there are too many files open and I cannot use the spell checker.
>Because of this situation, other features of the program also do not
>work, in particular the hyphenation routines.

There is a default number of files that can be open at once. It is stored in the boot blocks of the disk your are booting from. You would expect Master Juggler or Suitcase to allow you to open as many files as you want, but there is a default limit. It is quite easy to change the limit, the easiest way (if you have suitcase) is to go to "power user settings" and there you will be presented with the option of inceasing/decreasing the number of open files. The default is 12 (from memory), if you intend to op






en many files you should probably up the limit to 20-25. For those of you using real Appleshare Servers, it is good idea to increase the number of open files if you store fonts/das that can be open by users. From memory, Appleshare automatically increases that default but often not enough in my experience. If you don't have suitcase, you can use Fedit to edit the boot blocks, but its slightly harder. BTW each extra open file you allocate in the boot blocks uses about ~300 bytes of RAM.

>I will post a summary of the replies to the net. But please, reply. I
>would like to have the benefit of the wisdom of the net.

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