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From: mbkennel@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Matthew B. Kennel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Found problem with allocating large handles.
Message-ID: <5802@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 89 08:28:23 GMT
References: <9236@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: mbkennel@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Matthew B. Kennel)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <9236@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> janin@tybalt.caltech.edu (Adam L. Janin) writes:
>Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for suggestions about why
>I was unable to allocate large handles!
>
>The problem turned out to be that I had insufficient room under multifinder
>with LSC, the debugger, ResEdit, and my application.  This, of course, caused
>the request to NewHandle to fail.  Later, after rebooting, there appeared to
>be plenty of room, since ResEdit and other applications were not running.
>
>I just switched to using MultiFinder, so I expect I'll continue to be
>somewhat confused  :->
>
>	Adam Janin.
>	janin@tybalt.caltech.edu

Unbelievable!  NewHandle returned 0 because it was .... out of memory!!!
  :)

I'm not at all trying to impugn your programming ability, just making
a joke over the fact that we've all come to expect all sorts of
excruciatingly complicated interactions between hack A and kludge B and
system C and patch D when programming on the Macintosh that we tend to
overlook the obvious.

Matt Ke(*&9aSD97!dd^s
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