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From: dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: What's memory requirement for compacting?
Message-ID: <148286@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 24 Oct 90 09:20:32 GMT
References: <147434@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <1990Oct20.200655.17835@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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In article <1990Oct20.200655.17835@agate.berkeley.edu>,
borton@garnet.berkeley.edu (Chris "Johann" Borton) writes: 
> In article <147434@kean.ucs.mun.ca> dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca (David
Graham) writes: 
>>An idle question: what's the memory requirement for compacting stacks? 
>>I'm trying to compact a stack weighing in at 998K with 96K freesize; 
>>I'm showing about 1300K free memory, and I'm getting an error message 
>>saying "Unable to compact stack." I can't find any explanations of 
>>this message in my HC library, but am assuming it's probably a low 
>>memory situation. A stack measuring over 700K compacted OK, but this 
>>one and larger ones bring up the same error.
> 
> You neglected to mention if you had enough disk space for the compaction.
> HyperCard requires enough space on the disk to write out the compacted stack
> before deleting the old stack.  I'm not sure what RAM requirements it has...

Sorry, forgot to mention this, though I was aware of it. I'm running 
HC 1.2.5 (I think) from an 80meg drive with about 40 megs of free 
space on it, so I disk space shouldn't be a problem. I definitely 
think it's a RAM problem.

> 
> -cbb
> borton@garnet.berkeley.edu * Ph.D. student, UC Berkeley School of Education
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