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From: alex@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Alex Hartov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Problem with a crashing stack, need help.
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Date: 1 Nov 89 13:52:19 GMT
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Greetings all.  
I'm posting this in an attempt to understand what makes a stack of mine
bomb.  I have several stacks that I created in which I keep bibliographies
on different topics.  Recently, I tried to create a stack that would be
made up of the contents of all the individual topic bibliographies.  
I do this by looking up in each origin stacks for a field which contains
an abbreviation (e.g. [Hart-89]) of the reference and then see if I can
find it in the complete destination stack.  This, it seems to me, is a 
straightforward script and it didn't take long to write it.  The problem
I have is that it bombs after a while for no good reason.  

My setup is: Mac Plus, system F-6.03 (French version), Finder.  
I suspect it has something to do with running out of memory when creating
too many cards.  The error messages I get on the Bomb are: ID 2 or ID 10.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Alex Hartov, alex@eleazar.dartmough.edu.