Re: available memory

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 This "X" which everyone is talking about, what exactly must one
 do to see it? I've never seen it. I see the letter "I," and
 nothing but it. And what does "I" mean?

 M.W. Poirier

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
Caballero wrote:
It's almost impossible to get rid of that "X," which means that XY has
created temporary overflow files. It's a flaw in the program, but
according to the most expert users, not a fatal one or one worth worrying
about.
Right. It's there, but it normally has no effect. Once in a blue moon one
will get the message that there is not enough room on d: (d: being the drive
where editor.exe's directory is located), and one needs to "free space" on
it. (This is, I think, an artifact of DOS apps running under 32-bit Windows,
because dBase 5 for DOS also occasionally generates it.) It is, of course,
balderdash: there's tons of room on D:, but just possibly there may be more
files than an old DOS limitation on the number of files in a directory. I
always mean to check that when it happens, and never do.
There is an important function call (if that's not the wrong category) that
returns memory usage for XY4,
I suspect you mean the U2 routine Table Memory. Or Table
Variables, esp. the values displayed for $ME (available memory), $M+
(Memory used by Xy), and $M+0 through +6, which last, Save/Get memory, has
been mentioned several times here when debugging people's problems.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx