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From: robert@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How did I break Duplicate?
Summary: Duplicate really does this!
Keywords: help duplicate
Message-ID: <10549@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 14:02:23 GMT
References: <10515@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1990Sep20.123701.772@uncecs.edu>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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In article <1990Sep20.123701.772@uncecs.edu>, utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
> 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.  

Thanks, Todd!  This is exactly what was happening to me.  I must admit
that when I first read your posting I thought you had to be kidding.
So, please -- will somebody explain why Duplicate behaves this way?!
If you don't believe it, just try it!

Please pardon this
useless extra text 
required to get 
goofball postnews 
to accept my article.

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