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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Subject: Re: Opening DAs in the current layer
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.225308.20528@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Keywords: DA, System 7
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 22:53:08 GMT

I was hoping you could still open DA's with an application and not as
a separate system 7.0 process!  It's aggravating to try picking
printer when you're out of (5Mb of) memory.  This could lead to "user
deadlock" -- You need to print before exiting, but you need to exit in
order to print?

With FOP light & the deskwriter, you are changing the printer driver
all the time, consequently, the chooser needs to be active nearly all
the time.  It seems to swallow up at least 100K of memory.

Don Gillies - gillies@cs.uiuc.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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