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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multifinder 1.0 (w/Macterminal or Word)troubles
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Date: 18 Dec 87 16:54:09 GMT
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>Would someones from Apple and Microsoft like to comment on these?

I'm from neither, but since I'm a user of both...

>I stopped using MacTerminal 2.2 because it wouldn't boot as part of
>as Set Startup group without funny messages; and as noted, it does
>rather seem to crash.

I have never crashed MacTerminal 2.2 under Multifinder. I use it rather
heavily, including loading it, Word 3.01 and Ready, Set, Go! 4.0 all in
memory at the same time and watching things thrash. But no bombs. 
It's very stable on my machine.

>Word 3.01 generally works, but after a while, bombola, at least in my
>experience.  Often around saving or printing time, but not necessarily 
>(perhaps that's just the Murphy's law part).  Even if it's the only 
>thing (and newly) up under Multifinder besides the finder.

Again, I work pretty heavily with Word 3.01, and I've had one bomb, in an
extremely bizarre set of circumstances that are reproducible but unlikely.

Note that Word likes memory. The default size partition for it is very small
if you're doing large files or complicated edits. I've set mine for 640K, and
I'll probably up it beyond that one of these minutes to about 750K (RSG 4.0
is the same way -- the size partition is way too small for the work I do in it)

>It would be nice to know.  Heck, even my own programs sometimes do
>things I think they shouldn't -- just uncovered a bug which would
>cause a (signal caught and dealt with, at least) bus error in my
>natural language system for AT&T -- a case where a sentence with a
>percent sign in it could slip through and get run through a sprintf,
>thus trying to access wherever a random spot on the stack pointed to.

As far as I can tell, both programs are stable, as long as you make sure
they have enough memory. I wouldn't run Word in less than 512K under any
circumstance; but then I've also never had it crash, so I must be doing
something right.