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>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! |

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