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From: sysop@stech.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MultiFinder woes and joys
Message-ID: <256@stech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 21:14:07 EST
Article-I.D.: stech.256
Posted: Thu Nov 12 21:14:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 18:25:37 EST
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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I've been using MultiFinder very heavily for a while now, and thought I'd share
some problems I'd run into, as well as what I found was very good about it.

First, some very odd behavior:

	1. Occasionally, an application will quit unexpectedly (both MacWrite
and FullPaint did this).  MultiFinder sends you a message that this has
happened, but doesn't close the document that you were working on.  With
MacWrite, it means that I have to reboot the machine to close the document
so that I can work on it again (selecting Close from the Finder certainly
doesn't help ...).

	2. At one point, MacWrite hung during a write to disk.  I lost the
entire text file.   Thank heavens for backup copies!

	3. PrintMonitor sends a message that it couldn't print a document
and asks if I want to try again.  The trouble is, the document has already
been printed - successfully.
   
	4. MacPaint doesn't seem to be able to talk to PrintMonitor.  Regardless
of which print option you pick, nothing happens.  (I haven't tried MacPaint with
background printing off; I simply switched to FullPaint, which works fine.)

Are these bugs?  Has anyone else run into similar problems?

Now, some joys:

	1. I had two copies of MacWrite running, each working on a different
document.  I was cutting and pasting between the two without any problems.
It made life exceptionally easy. (Don't tell me to get a more sophisticated
word processor that supports multiple windows - I dislike MS Word intensely
and need something that desktop publishing programs can read!) 
 
 	2. Ready, Set, Go and at least one graphics program will fit in
RAM in my 2 meg machine at one time.  At last, an easy way to modify graphics
when using a DTP program which can't do its own graphics!!!!!!

All in all, I'm very pleased to finally have MultiFinder.  It makes life
a million times easier, which is what computers should be all about, eh?

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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