Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!stuartb From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 2 Multifinder problems Message-ID: <19@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 29 Jan 89 01:33:11 GMT References: <4231@hubcap.UUCP> Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 35 In article <4231@hubcap.UUCP> disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger) writes: | >From article , by gould@pilot.njin.net (Brian Jay Gould): | >> I have a MAC II with 5MB of RAM. I'm hoping that someone | >As do we. | >> 2) Several times per day, I can't open Excel. I get a message | >> about memory fragmentation. According to "about finder", the | >> largest unused block is at least 2MB, and Excel is configured | >> for 1MB max. | >We have seen a behavior similar to this when we used DeskPict to put | >the Apple Balls on our desk top. I don't know if this is a problem | >with Excel or DeskPict. | > | >> Any help at all would be appreciated. | >What he said. | >Gary If Excel finds the lower 1 meg of memory in what it considers to be a too fragmented a state for it to grab what it considers a usable contiguous chunk of memory, then you will get the fragmentation error. Currently there is not much you can do to fix this. Both known work-arounds are really kludgy. You can try re-booting and running Excel first, or run only unifinder. This headache causing limitation will go away in the next major release...RSN. Stu. __Paths to my door:_______________________ microsoft!stuartb@beaver.cs.washington.edu - Usual disclaimer, that all microsoft!stuartb@uw-beaver.arpa - the above is pure fantasy microsoft!stuartb@uunet.UU.NET - and Microsoft only [DE01HB]stuartb@DASNET# {from AppleLink} - gave me the Mountain Dew stuartb@microsoft.uucp {well connected} - to dream it all in a D2012 {@applelink.apple.com - shared acct} - caffeine haze :-) __________________________________________________________________________