7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) (10/05/90)
If you're running MGR on a 1 megabyte machine, you may find yourself unable to open more than 1 window. This is because MGR contains a fork() call, and that's a very memory-expensive operation. It may help to open subsequent windows with the demo program "half.ttp" instead of from the MGR desktop; the syntax is "half <name of program to run in new window>". Also: MGR will automatically delete a window when the top-level program in it exits. This is the preferred method of killing a window; selecting "delete window" from the command menu is somewhat less useful, because it may not succeed in killing off the programs running in the window (for various reasons). For this reason, if you run out of memory check drive X: for programs that were running in a now-deleted window; if you find one, kill it (either with kill.ttp or any sort of file deletion program). -- Eric R. Smith email: Dept. of Mathematics ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario ersmith@uwovax.bitnet London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7 ph: (519) 661-3638