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From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How did I break Duplicate?
Keywords: help duplicate
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.123701.772@uncecs.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 12:37:01 GMT
References: <10515@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <10515@hubcap.clemson.edu> robert@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert Reynolds) writes:
>All of a sudden, the Workbench menu command `Duplicate' has stopped
>working for me.  This is WB1.3 on a hard disk.  The behavior is as
>follows:  the new `copy of blah.info' file gets created for the icon but
>then, immediately as far as I can tell, the machine gurus.  This happens
>independent of the kind of file I'm trying to duplicate (directory or
>data file).  If I do the (more or less) equivalent of `Duplicate' by
>hand it works fine, so it's not like my file system is so screwed up
>that no new files can be created or anything like that.

I had something similar happen to me when I added an A590 to my system.
I'm running one of those memory gauge/clock programs which reports the
amount of chip and fast RAM available.  Whenever I use 'duplicate', the
fast RAM trips quickly down to zero, then the chip RAM goes down to 
almost zero, then they both come back up to their former levels.  This only
happens if I duplicate something on the hard disk; duplicating things
on floppies doesn't do this.

Well, at the time, I was running FaccII and the asdg-lomem.library
and whenever the memory dropped during a duplicate, my system would
crash.  I took out the low memory library and now it doesn't.  The 
free RAM still drops down to next to nuthin' when I duplicate something
on my hard disk, even something small, but it doesn't cause any other
problems.

By the way, does anybody know why 'duplicate' under 1.3.2 causes free
ram to drop the way it does?  I'd like to know...

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