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From: brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MultiFinder and DA
Message-ID: <17000105@clio>
Date: 18 Jun 88 01:27:00 GMT
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gillies at uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:

> Hold down the command key to open a DA when memory is low.  The key
> causes MultiFinder to start the DA in the application's partition
> (preallocated memory), not in some new allocation (that fails because
> the heap is nearly full).  This is documented in your macintosh user's
> manual, I believe.
> 
> If this doesn't work for you, you might try switching to an
> application with plenty of free memory (go to the word processor and
> close all your windows?) and try it again.  
> 
> Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
>             {gillies@cs.uiuc.edu}

I think you mean the OPTION key, not the command key.

Robert Brewer
    brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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