Re: More Stack questions

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Harry Binswanger  on Mon, 16 Feb 2004
21:13:42 -0500


> Everything works fine now, thanks. When I get to installing the new U2, I
> will try the Stub substitute for .DLG.

Umm, don't. The idea is good, but I realized in December that each time you
(re)load DLG, you commit just under 900 bytes of unrecoverable memory to the
Save/Get buffer. Since the buffer tops out at 26-28Kb, and starts to get shaky
around 15Kb, that toggling in and out between and stub and the real DLG can add
up fast if you use the menus much. You could deplete the buffer of 10-15Kb of
committed, unrecoverable memory in very short order. I disabled the stub on my
system (where I'd used it for years, and often run out of memory for "no good
reason").

Yes, you can get ordinary Stack to work with a system like your's, but the new
v3.3 is really more efficient, much more flexible, and easier to set up,
designed as it for your (or any) kind of keyboard setup. The original Stack
was never designed with the keyboard in mind -- it just assumed CU and CD, and
the odder flavors were kludged in later (each variant KBD setup had to have a
custom solution). Plus, the code is in U2, where it can be much more easily
maintained and massaged.

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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