balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian Allen Levine) (09/18/90)
I'd like to upgrade myself and several others to System 6.0.5 so that we can use HyperCard 2.0 when it's released. I hear that there are problems with 6.0.5 and the system heap, however, and I'd like to know what I'm getting into before I actually do the upgrade. Can someone tell me what the story is? I've also heard that there are several PD/Shareware programs that can fix (enlarge? by how much?) the system heap, but I don't know what they are called or how to get them. I'd appreciate any information, especially any regarding these fix programs and where I can get them. I'd love an anonymous ftp source if this is possible. --Brian A. Levine -- ********************************************************************** Brian A. Levine brianlev@uiuc.edu OR balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu **********************************************************************
chuq@Apple.COM (The Wandering Phew) (09/18/90)
balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian Allen Levine) writes: > I hear that there are >problems with 6.0.5 and the system heap, however, and I'd like to know >what I'm getting into before I actually do the upgrade. I keep hearing that story myself. I've never seen any proof, just the rumors. And I know that I've run 6.0.5 on all my machines for a while with no problems. >I've also heard that there are >several PD/Shareware programs that can fix (enlarge? by how much?) the >system heap, but I don't know what they are called or how to get them. I know of three. Widgets and Heapfixer are both by CE Software. neither is PD/Shareware -- they're for the use of their customers (avilable on the Disktop or QuickMail disks, among others). I've also see a shareware CDEV (name something like System Heap sizer) that is on GEnie. It was so obnoxious and noisy about the shareware fee it didn't last 10 minutes on my hard disk, though (there is a big difference between asking for shareware and badgering for it. If a program makes itself obnoxious, it gets uninvited from my system and I don't keep it around long enough to decide if it's worth spending money on). -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking] mumble..mumble...mumble...mumbleLemieuxSCORE!!!!!!!...mumble...mumble..mumble
Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (09/20/90)
The Wandering Phew (Chuq von R) writes in a message: TWP> Widgets and Heapfixer are both by CE Software. neither is PD/Shareware TWP> -- they're for the use of their customers (avilable on the Disktop TWP> or QuickMail disks, among others)... But CE Software has posted HeapFixer on CompuServe, available to all from its data library in the Mac Vendor A forum. That sorta greys the line a little. Undoubtedly copyrighted, yet freely available to the public (with dire warnings that it's not to be posted anywhere else without specific permission from CE). --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.2!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG