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From: alcmist@well.UUCP (Frederick Wamsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Excel vs Font/DA Juggler
Message-ID: <5150@well.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 07:47:21 GMT
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Reply-To: alcmist@well.UUCP (Frederick Wamsley)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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>So much for the trick.  The gist of this is that Microsoft Excel will
>crash doing a relatively simple thing.  If I were to remove Font/DA
>Juggler Plus, Excel will run OK.  My system configuration was: System 4.2
>with Finder 6.0.  System 4.1 with Finder 5.5 does the same thing.
>
>Now, I already know that Excel has some problems with Multifinder.  On
>the other hand, Font/DA Juggler Plus is a relatively new product (I got
>mine at the MacWorld Expo).

I don't really know anything about Excel, but I did try to start it
once with a debugger installed and set to stop whenever someone
patched a Toolbox or OS trap.  It turns out that Excel redefines
a lot of the resource-handling functionality of the Mac, which is 
exactly what a product like Suitcase has to tinker with.  I would
guess that they get in each other's way somehow.

If that's what is happening I can't think of a cure, except perhaps to
buy a spreadsheet from a company that doesn't feel the need to patch
GetResource in an application.
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