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From: goldman@Apple.COM (Phil Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finding out about the MultiFinder partition size of an application
Keywords: is it a feature - is it a bug??!!
Message-ID: <13689@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 88 02:27:42 GMT
References: <2879@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: goldman@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Phil Goldman)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2879@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
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>  [ follow-ups to this article go to comp.sys.mac ONLY ]
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>When MultiFinder is not running, GetInfo won't tell you the recommended or
>Default Size of an Application;
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>When MultiFinder is running and the application is in use, GetInfo won't
>tell you about it either.
>...

If the application is running under MF then the sizes are shown, but they
cannot be edited.  These numbers are stored in the application's SIZE
resource in its resource fork.  This cannot be modified while the application
itself might possibly possibly do so.  Unfortunately, the resource manager does
not support locking on a grain smaller than the entire fork.

As for the first problem, this can be solved by always running MF.

-Phil Goldman
Apple Computer