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Subject: Re: Very Very Unusual Problem
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Date: 2 Oct 90 05:27:00 GMT
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One possibility is that the bitmap for the huge font is eating up a lot
of memory.  I remember hearing that this can be a problem.  What happens
is that a smaller font size is scaled up to meet the new point size and so
takes up proportionately more space in memory.

It shouldn't fill up THAT much, though, unless maybe it causes heavy fragment-
ation of memory (blocks scattered everywhere, with little space between each,
although overall free memory is still sizable).

Bill Gulstad