CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate) (11/07/89)
First, the promotional snippit: Helix, an interesting graphics program, has made its appearance in the SUMEX-AIM Info-Mac archives, in the /app directory. Now, the question: I originally wrote and debugged Helix in Turbo Pascal 1.1, for simplicity's sake. However, I've now ported it to LSC 3.02, and am faced with trying to determine a reasonable size for its MultiFinder partition. It's about 20K on disk, and all the dynamic allocation it does is have a single near-full-screen window open, put in a handful of menus, and print an image composed of a few hundred lines. How big a partition do I need? Obviously, 384K is massive overkill; I'd far rather it had a default partition of something on the order of 50K, to free up memory for Important Things.... Unfortunately, I have absolutely *no way* of trying it out under MultiFinder to see how much I have to crunch it before it crashes. Does anyone have any thumbnail guidelines for guesstimating a likely partition size? I'm fairly certain it requires less than 100K, but I'd like to squeeze it as much as possible. ------- Christopher Tate | etaT rehpotsirhC Bitnet: cxt105@psuvm | mvusp@501txc :tentiB Uucp: ...!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cxt105 | 501txc!tentib.mvusp!1xavusp!... :pcuU Internet: cxt105@psuvm.psu.edu | ude.usp.mvusp@501txc :tenretnI