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From: prt@druhi.UUCP (ToppingP)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Programming large desk accessories
Message-ID: <579@druhi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 18:15:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 20 18:15:13 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jun-86 13:13:04 EDT
Organization: AT&T Information System Labs, Denver, Co
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Keywords: DA

I have an Aztec C program that produces a 50K executable that, for reasons of
utility, should be a Desk Accessory rather than an application.

In all the documentation I have available (Inside Macintosh, Macintosh Revealed,
and the Aztec docs) rather vague, but small, limits are placed on the size of
DA's.  Inside Mac, for example, places an 8k "practical limit" on DA's.  This
was probably written when all Macs were 128K and seems rather low with respect
to 512K Macs and 1MB Plusses.

Does anybody out there have any hard information (or pointers to such) on what
the limits are, their causes, work arounds, and/or experience with large DA's?
Please don't restrict responses to Aztec C environments; anything will help.

Thanks in advance,	Paul Topping

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