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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MultiFinder Problems
Message-ID: <38690@sun.uucp>
Date: 13 Jan 88 04:45:31 GMT
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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>I just had my first experience working with Multifinder yesterday, and it left
>a very bad raste in my mouth.  I was running Word Tools and Macwrite (both
>separately, but in each case, Versaterm Pro was in the background).  Both
>programs gave me the "x has just exited unexpectedly (2)"  Why does this happen?
>I ended up not using MF because I never got anything done!!  The $%^& programs
>kept quitting before they finished!  IS this a memory thing? (It was a 1M Mac+)

Definitely. While I've pulled Word Tools off my hard disk because of
problems it seems to have with the new System release, I use Macwrite
without any problems. One megabyte is minimal for a Multifinder setup,
you're lucky to fit more than one application in with it. 

>I also had a wierd problem using background paser printing.  When the program
>ran out of space on the system floppy, it said "no more room for output" or 
>some such, then it crashed ID=12.  After that, every attempt to reboot with the
>system disk resulted in a crash before I could do anything!!

You don't want to use background printing without a hard disk. Period.
Laserwriter files are large. Too large for floppy systems. I make sure I
have at least a megabyte free on my hard disk, or turn off background
printing.

>I was, needless to say, not impressed.  Give me back my Amiga... ;-)

you can have it. With my blessing. I don't knw how I lived without
Multifinder.

chuq
Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach		chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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