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From: openlook-request@openlook
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Variable names - reserved!
Message-ID: <al8v97x@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 15:50:13 GMT
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> While writing an OW2 interface I had a global variable called 'select'.
> There's no mention of this being a reserved word in the programming
> manual (page 49) so I guessed it was OK. WRONG! 

	Could it be that the notifier uses the select() system call?
	Depending upon scope of course, without the (), "select" could 
	then be a ptr-to-fn-ret-int and not your global variable.

	Try using a "static" instead.

	But it shouldn't trash the server connections, just your appplication.

> While I'm here, has anyone got any tips on making OW run faster. I've
> got an SLC and it's so slow - like 3 mins to start etc. Most people here
> have gone back to Sunview.

	How much RAM do you have?  It seems that 16 MB is the minimum needed
	for decent performance on our SS1's.

	Frank G.