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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MultiFinder and DA
Message-ID: <374@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 13:36:28 GMT
References: <6613@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
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Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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In article <6613@sigi.Colorado.EDU>, sivagnan@handel.ColoState.EDU (Vasanthan Sivagnanadasan) writes:
> 
>  I am running MultiFinder 1.0 under finder 6.0 System 4.2 on my Mac SE
> with 1 Meg of memory. When I open a DA from the apple menu I just get
> the beep and the DA will not open. But if I just run the finder it
> opens.  How can I solve this problem?
> 


There are really two ways of dealing with this, the first being the most
painful.  The painful method is to get more memory.  The not so painful, but
annoying way is to hold down the Option key when selecting the DA from the
Apple menu.  This will cause the DA to load in the heap of the currently
executing application.  Not holding down the Option key causes the launch of
the DA Handler.  If you are running some application along with the Finder
under MultiFinder, it is quite likely that there will not be enough memory to
load a DA such as DiskTop or Acta, which require a fair amount of memory to do
their magic.

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Macintosh Division
dBASE Mac Development Team
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!