jay@ut-emx.UUCP (Jay Boisseau) (01/17/90)
I just experienced a weird problem with VersaTerm 4.0. I tried to launch it
on my 4 Mb SE with MS Word 4.0 already loaded in to MF, and I got a dialog
box telling me there wasn't enough Finder memory. I thought this ridiculous,
so I checked the About Finder... item, and saw that I should have had PLENTY
of memory. I rebooted, and tried to launch Versaterm FIRST (nothing else open
in MF), and got the same message. The About Finder... box informed me that I
still had over 3 Mb of RAM available in my largest block! What was going on?
I checked the Get Info box for VersaTerm, and, to my surprise, BOTH the
"Suggested Memory Size" and "Application Memory Size" (in the little box) were
listed as "n/a". I changed them to this, and the date of last modification
was last summer! I didn't even know the former item ("Suggested Memory Size",
the item NOT in the little box), could ever change. Panicking, I replaced
the VersaTerm application with a copy from the original disk, and suddenly
everything worked--despite the fact that the date of last modification was
the same! The"n/a" was now at its "normal" value.
Does anybody know what might have caused this? I'm a little concerned that
something is trashing my software, but I have found no viruses. Help!
Jay Boisseau
jay@emx.utexas.edujay@ut-emx.UUCP (Jay Boisseau) (01/17/90)
> I checked the Get Info box for VersaTerm, and, to my surprise, BOTH the > "Suggested Memory Size" and "Application Memory Size" (in the little box) were > listed as "n/a". I changed them to this, and the date of last modification > was last summer! I didn't even know the former item ("Suggested Memory Size", > the item NOT in the little box), could ever change. Panicking, I replaced... I meant I NEVER changed them to this (althoug that is probably clear from the context of the next senetence. Any ideas? Anyone? Jay Boisseau jay@emx.utexas.edu
6600pete@hub.UUCP (Pete Gontier) (01/18/90)
in article <23294@ut-emx.UUCP>, by jay@ut-emx.UUCP (Jay Boisseau): > [ VersaTerm's memory allocation for MultiFinder going from some > number to "n/a" without explanation. ] Sounds like some program trashed VersaTerm's SIZE resource. Are you a ResEdit hack? :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pete Gontier | InterNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu, BitNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa Editor, Macker | Online Macintosh Programming Journal; mail for subscription Hire this kid | Mac, DOS, C, Pascal, asm, excellent communication skills
prg@bonnie.ATT.COM (Paul R. Gloudemans) (01/18/90)
In article <23269@ut-emx.UUCP>, jay@ut-emx.UUCP (Jay Boisseau) writes: > I just experienced a weird problem with VersaTerm 4.0. I tried to launch it > ... > I checked the Get Info box for VersaTerm, and, to my surprise, BOTH the > "Suggested Memory Size" and "Application Memory Size" (in the little box) were > listed as "n/a". [Remaining stuff deleted.] > > Does anybody know what might have caused this? I'm a little concerned that > something is trashing my software, but I have found no viruses. Help! The "n/a" in the "Suggested" and "Application" Memory Size boxes is normal if Versaterm was running under Multifinder at the time you did the "Get Info". I don't have version 4.0 but previous versions were not configured properly right from the shrink wrap for running under Multifinder; had to increase the "Application Memory Size" allotted to account for MF overhead. I suspect that after you re-installed and did the "Get Info" Versaterm was NOT running and thus the memory sizes appeared "normal". Just increase the "Application Memory Size" and Versaterm should run properly under MF.