Re: [MacPerl] Maximum number of filenames for a droplet

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12.08 -0500 1998.11.03, Dan Herron wrote:
>I think the problem can be solved by increasing the memory partition for
>the droplet, if my memory serves me (and it has to, since I have no Mac
>to test this on.) I seem to remember cranking the memory allocation (File
>-> Get Info) up to about 100K, and then it could handle (pass to MacPerl)
>a reasonable number of files.

Confirmed.  I can't give hard number recommendations, but I made 1000 temp
files, and it would not work with the standard 64K given to a droplet, but
it would work when I upped it to 1024K.

You can set the default for new droplets to be a higher value with ResEdit
(always work on a copy ...).  Open the SIZE resource of the droplet, and
change the size to a new value (1048576 would be 1024K).  Restart MacPerl,
and all new droplets will have that preferred size.

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