Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Suitcase II Upgrade  (Revisited)
Keywords: Suitcase II, upgrade,  Pyro! 3.0
Message-ID: <786@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 23:31:28 GMT
References: <10707@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <67998@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <67998@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>I just hope Suitcase II solves my memory problems. It's not that I want
>a whole bunch of fonts and DAs. I just want the leanest system possible so
>I can stop running out of memory several times a day with Word. 
>
>I don't really understand how Suitcase will help if it opens its files at
>boot time too. What's the difference if the fonts are in the system file
>or a Suitcase file?
>
>If someone answers this question telling me that Suitcase won't help, I may
>still cancel the upgrade.
>
>Shirley Kehr

Well, Suitcase is so useful I'd hate for you to cancel your upgrade, but...

Fonts and DAs don't take up any memory until they are used.  They only
take up disk space.  Suitcase allows you to overcome the 15 DA limit
and it allows you to store your fonts and DAs in separate files (so that
you can use the standard Apple-distributed System file and not have to
worry about adding back your fonts and DAs whenever a new version comes
around (or you trash the copy on your hard disk)).

It also does nice things with snd's and FKEYs, and allows for compression
of fonts and snd's to save disk space.

Oh, yes, it also helps you convert your fonts to NFNTs, which alone is 
worth the price.

But it *doesn't* save you any memory (in fact, it eats up a little itself).
Hope this all helps you make up your mind.

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