[net.micro.mac] Programming large desk accessories

prt@druhi.UUCP (ToppingP) (06/21/86)

I have an Aztec C program that produces a 50K executable that, for reasons of
utility, should be a Desk Accessory rather than an application.

In all the documentation I have available (Inside Macintosh, Macintosh Revealed,
and the Aztec docs) rather vague, but small, limits are placed on the size of
DA's.  Inside Mac, for example, places an 8k "practical limit" on DA's.  This
was probably written when all Macs were 128K and seems rather low with respect
to 512K Macs and 1MB Plusses.

Does anybody out there have any hard information (or pointers to such) on what
the limits are, their causes, work arounds, and/or experience with large DA's?
Please don't restrict responses to Aztec C environments; anything will help.

Thanks in advance,	Paul Topping

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barmar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin) (06/23/86)

Even though most Macintoshes these days have large amounts of memory, I
don't think this should be used as an excuse for large DAs.  I, for one,
spend nearly all my time on the Mac inside Switcher, running programs in
128K-256K partitions usually.  A 50K DA would hardly ever run for me.
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