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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Suitcase problem figured out
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 11:57:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 11:57:44 1987
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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Keywords: Suitcase DAs Fonts
Summary: Aha!

In out last episode, you may recall that I was having problems with the
feature of Suitcase where it searches for a "Fonts" and a "DAs" folder
within the System Folder and makes any font or DA files within the
respective folders available to the user at boot-up (as someone mentioned,
they are not loaded into memory; as far as I can figure out, they are opened
for reading, and read from disk when needed, just like the System File).  My
problem was that I had about 10 DA files and 20 Font files in the two
folders, and only two or three of the font files were being loaded.

Finally figured it out -- Suitcase, like any other application, has a
maximum number of files it can have opened at any time.  I'm not a Mac
programmer, but I suspect it's 16 or 32 or some round number like that.
Anyway, it couldn't open all my files at a time, so I put all the fonts into
one font file, all the DAs into one DA file, and now everything works
splendidly.

After all the problems I had with Double Apple and Other..., I have to say
that Suitcase is incredibly robust.  A very impressive application, and
definately worth the bucks.

                                    "I *LIKE* IT!!"

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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