I would think the OS-X approach is really a little more user friendly
because it does not require the end user to guess at how much RAM the
software manufacturer really intended the application to use ratehr than
the bare bones minimum it need to get by with. (Sorry about ending the
sentence like that!)
Jerry
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 11:05 PM, Tony LaFemina wrote:
> What happened to that user friendly environment? I guess it was nice
> while it lasted.
>
> Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> Allocating memory in OS-X can be done by the user, but it is not for
>> the faint-of-heart (smile).
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 12:00 AM, Tony LaFemina wrote:
>>
>>> Allan Atherton wrote:
>>>
>>>> What should I do about corrupted fonts in Word?
>>>> I am using Word X under OS 10.2.1, and have noticed that Word has
>>>> begun to
>>>> quit rather frequently. Then today I noticed that in the pull down
>>>> menu in
>>>> the formatting palette, some of the fonts are gibberish, and I have
>>>> to
>>>> select a font 3 or 4 lines away from the one I want, in order to get
>>>> the one
>>>> I want. So I guess corrupted fonts are crashing the application.
>>>> Allan Atherton
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October
>>>> 22
>>>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>>>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I don't think you have corrupted fonts. I thing the program is
>>> getting bogged down. Try allocating more memory to it in 10M
>>> increments and see what happens. If it goes back to normal, you're
>>> going to have to see what useless information it's storing that's
>>> causing it to get so heavy.
>>>
>>> -- Tony LaFemina
>>> Major in Layout & Design Techniques
>>> Minor in Software Fundamentals
>>> http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html
>>> mailto:remacs at optonline.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November
>>> 26
>>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26
>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>
>>
>
>
> -- Tony LaFemina
> Major in Layout & Design Techniques
> Minor in Software Fundamentals
> http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html
> mailto:remacs at optonline.net
>
>
>
>
> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>
>
>
>
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
