Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: bitch, bitch, bitch... Message-ID: <1574@uw-beaver> Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 18:46:25 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1574 Posted: Tue Aug 28 18:46:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Aug-84 02:41:34 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 28 From: Rick McGeer (on an aaa-60-s) One disk I'm using for correspondence currently has 34K of macwrite documents (couple of Macpaint-generated pictures, too), and one Macpaint document. What with the necessary system files, plus macwrite and macpaint to open the documents, plus enough room for the print utility to store intermediate copies before printing, the disk is getting kind of full. I'm afraid that at six bucks a Sony this kind of storage density really isn't enough. Now, things would get a *lot* better if the Mac were intelligent enough to dig the system, macwrite, and macpaint stuff off one disk and the documents off another. However, it looks like the Mac has exactly one active drive at any one time, and it won't look at the second. Is there any way to get the Mac to use both drives in a 2-drive system? Second: I could have avoided this, I suppose, by saving the document, exiting Macwrite and then printing the document directly from the Finder. But I didn't. Instead I printed from Macwrite, getting a "disk full" message. Eventually I cleaned out the notepad and scrapbook, to the point where I had 36K nominally free on disk (up from 29K); at that point the print utility had enough free disk space to print. What worried me was that I checked the size of the document later, and found out that it was only 15K; in other words, the print utility saves two bytes for every one in the file. Does the print utility store bitmaps, or something? Rick.