SAVEGET.SGT and memory usage

[Carlo Caballero carloc@xxxxxxxx]

Some time ago (6 Jan. 2006),

Robert Holmgren wrote:
> Your high memory usage is due mainly to loading SAVEGET.SGT in
> STARTUP.INT. Do
> you actually *use* any of these programs in SAVEGET.SGT?

Judith Davidsen  wrote in reply:

> I never even opened SAVEGET.SGT before, don't recognize anything
> in it and can't explain how any of it got there. Could it have
> been there when I bought it? It's dated Nov. 12, 1993.
>

SAVEGET.SGT was the prefab SGT that was supplied with XyWrite 4. Of course,
many of us have altered it since then. But as a test, I recently installed
the original, unaltered file to see how much memory it ate up.

Thanks to Robert, we all know and love the radiant command: VA/NV $M+6.
 This command reports a value of "10" if I let STARTUP.INT load SAVEGET.SGT.
 If I comment out [;*;] that single item (everything else in STARTUP.INT
remains the same), the same command reports "1". This is a remarkable
difference.

That one therefore should avoid loading SAVEGET.SGT seems pretty elementary
by now. But I'm left wondering why the inventors of the sleekest, fastest
word-processor ever known would BURDEN it down with such an *inefficient*
memory hog as part of the default installation. Was it merely haste?

Carlo Caballero
CarloC@xxxxxxxx