Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!usfvax2!pollock
From: pollock@usfvax2.UUCP (Wayne Pollock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multifinder woes. DA's
Message-ID: <940@usfvax2.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 05:19:02 GMT
References: <7965@j.ms.uky.edu> <174400093@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP (Wayne Pollock)
Organization: University of South Florida at Tampa
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In article <174400093@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>I have this same suggestion for 'SIZE' resources; it should be possible to
>>put a SIZE resource in a document, which would override the SIZE in the
>>application (which would be used as a default).  ...
>
>Under Multifinder, programs can load in a small partition, then ask for more
>if they need it, right?  So, assuming developers implement this, the next
>round of program updates ought to make the abovementioned feature unnecessary.

Sure, for new applications.  Do you have any idea how much macintosh software
already exists?  A whole lot!  Me, I'd rather have the ability to put a SIZE
resource in a document I use frequently than wait for all my favorite
applications to be revised by the developers!  (After all, my suggestion isn't
incompatable with yours.)

Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist)	pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP
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