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From: rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LSC "Memory critical"
Message-ID: <7215@apple.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 20:11:57 GMT
References: <7202@apple.UUCP> <21573@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe)
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In article <21573@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> robertj@yale.UUCP writes:
>In article <7202@apple.UUCP> rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
>>So I just got my very own Mac II at home, huzzah!
>>
>>I transferred several Lightspeed C projects from my Mac Plus
>>to the II, and tried to open them.  I invariably got the
>>bug box with the message "Memory critical - proceed at your
>>own risk". The project did not open, but the project file
>>was busy, and I'd have to reboot before I could access it
>>again. [These were 2.01 projects, opened by LSC 2.15 on the Mac II. - rmh]
>
>What probably happened is that you had a MultiFinder partition that was
>too small for LSC to run well.  Some recent articles in this newsgroup
>mentioned 750K as a good minimum size for healthy running under Multi-
>Finder.  Since the partition size wouldn't change when you added more
>memory, this was probably your problem.  (You change the partition in the
>"Get Info" box, as I'm sure you're aware.)

Um, nope - that wasn't it. First, I did try that; second, no changes
were made to LSC when I started successfully creating new project files.
The problem just about has to be an incompatibility between the 2.01
and the 2.15 project file formats - perhaps something as simple as a
missing SIZE resource in the old project files (although I looked for
one in the new project files and didn't find one). But back when I upgraded
from 1.02 to 2.01, LSC automagically converted the project files very neatly.

>>kits). The bug manifested under both Finder and MultiFinder 6.0,
>>under both System 4.2 and 4.3.
>
>System 4.3???!!!!  Yow!  When is *that* little puppy gonna be released??

Oh, golly, did I type 4.3?  What a silly mistake! I meant to say, obviously,
"under both System 4.2 and the watchful eye of my little puppy." :-)

>
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Thanks for the suggestions, Rob!

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