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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem launching DAs under Multifinder w/ MacIIcx running 6.0.3
Message-ID: <2886@carthage.cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 15 May 89 02:51:59 GMT
References: <531@kronos.NISD.CAM.UNISYS.COM> <2672@osiris.sics.se>
Reply-To: jackiw@carthage.UUCP (Nick Jackiw)
Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA
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In article <2672@osiris.sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes:
> In article <531@kronos.NISD.CAM.UNISYS.COM> jonab@cam.unisys.com (Jonathan P. Biggar) writes:
> >
>  When you use MultiFinder you must have the file (application) DA Handler
> in the System folder.
>  However: there is a way to launch DA in the old way (without DA Handler):
> hold down option-key as you select the DA.

Note that the "old way" is actually rather risky if you are running MF.
When launched with the option-key down, a DA vies for memory within the
memory partition which the frontmost application has requested for itself,
instead of in a separate partition reserved for accessories.

The more precisely that application's developer has estimated the memory
requirement of the application, the less spare room there's going to be
in its partition for extra-application stuff like DAs.  You may find yourself
running out of memory (error, or worse, bomb) doing this even though you
have 3.8MB free in the Unused partition.




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