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From: pete@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Peter T Teresinski)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Clipper
Summary: "Swap space exhausted."
Keywords: clipper
Message-ID: <8833@uwm.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 20:19:06 GMT
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      I have been trying to compile a large program with clipper 5.0
   to run on an ibm-compatible pc with 500K of ram available.  I keep getting
   a run-time error "swap space exhausted."  The clipper manual does not
   discuss run-time errors so I'm not sure what it means.  Does anyone know
   what this means?  

	Any Ideas on how I can reduce the amount of RAM required to run
   an application compiled with clipper?  I've forced most of the source
   code into overlays.  Is there some way I can get clipper to leave some
   of the unneeded functions out of executable code?  How much memory is
   used when clipper opens a file?  Can it be reduced?  I'm using a couple
   of monster-sized dbf's ~900 fields of N8,0.

   Any feedback would be greatly apprecited.