Re: MEMORY PROBLEM

[STEVE WILDSTROM]

I have noticed on occasion, especially when doing a complex edit on a long
file, that I'll lose memory that can only be recaptured by rebooting. I don't
think the problem is with XyWrite per se but with DOS, whose memory-management
inadequacies are well-known. Compelx edits require a great deal of memory
allocation and deallocation, creating and destruction of temporary buffers in
RAM, and setting of pointers all over the place. I suspect that sometimes a
request for XyWrite for release of memory doesn't always quite get processed by
DOS.
 spreadsheets have traditionally dealt with this problem by never deallocating
memory. Once a spreadsheet grew in RAM--this was true of 1-2-3 at least through
ver. 2.01--it never shrank except by closing it and reloading it from disk.
Simpler, but very inefficient.