mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (02/23/89)
>Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 14:07:27 MST >From: dbirnbau@nmsu.edu >Subject: No multi-launch under 6.0.2 > >At New Mexico State University, we have set up a file serving system running >under 6.0.2, which works just fine. However, in order to utilize the >multi-launch capabilities of programs such as Word and PageMaker, you have >to use ResEdit to set the cache bit in the finder attributes of the >application. This allows things to work just dandy. This depends of which version of ResEdit you are using. I believe that versions 1.1B3 and before had the "Cached" and "Shared" bits confused (I am not sure of the version that corrects this; one of the Tech Notes states that this was a problem [116?].) With the more current versions (1.2B3 and the rest of the 1.2 versions) you need to set the "Shared" bit, not the "Cached" bit. >Unfortunately, some applications don't function with this >modification. NCSA Telnet, HyperCard (because of the Home stack) and >SuperPaint are the applications that will not function as a >multi-launching application. HyperCard 1.2.1 will work as a multi-lauch application. The right bit must be set (see above), and the application *as well as* the Home stack must be in a LOCKED folder (i.e. read-only). This is how HyperCard would run off of a CD-ROM disk as well. If the Home card is not locked, only one person can use the software at a time. >Applications that I currently have set up for multi-launch are Word >3.01, PageMaker 2.01, MacDraw, MacWrite, FullPaint, Excel, Cricket >Draw, Cricket Graph, Works and ReadySetGo 4.0. Include Mac240, Word Perfect, MacPaint, SuperPaint, HyperCard, Virus Rx, etc. >One problem is that MacWrite 5.0, for some unknown reason, opens >the Main Dictionary as read/write, so only the first user can access >the dictionary. A pretty silly programming decision, if you ask me. >Other then that, most programs work just fine. Set the "Locked" bit of the dictionary and place it in a read-only folder. It will work then; the application has no choice but to open it as read- only, and it will do so (set up the application with the dictionaries installed before you lock and place in the read-only folder). >+--------------------------------------------+------------------------------+ >| David Birnbaum, programmer/consultant | dbirnbau@nmsu.edu | >| Small Systems, Computer Center | VTIS001@NMSUVM1.BITNET | >| New Mexico State University <--+ They pay my bills, but | >| 10 PRINT "Basic is Dead!" : GOTO 10 | they don't write my opions! | Michael Niehaus Apple Student Rep Ball State University UUCP: ..!{pur-ee,iuvax}!bsu-cs!mithomas AppleLink: ST0374