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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper 5.01 error message
Keywords: Clipper Arghhhh
Message-ID: <1991May15.203838.22946@pegasus.com>
Date: 15 May 91 20:38:38 GMT
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In article <1991May10.112405.7053@anomaly.sbs.com> mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>
>BZZZT. Wrong answer. I cannot speak for Warplink, but can state with
>complete confidence that Blinker will *not even link* Clipper 5.01a
>applications. Blinkinc is scheduled to release an update in a few
>weeks.
>
>If what you say is true, then why can I take a binary, execute it on a
>machine with 450k free, then load a TSR which takes, say, 60k, leaving
>390k free, and then attempting TO RUN THE SAME EXACT BINARY get the
>"Eval stack " error message?
>
Michael,

If there is anything that you could tell me about Blinker I would be surprised
as I have every version they ever made, have the current beta and know the
author.

You are leaping to conclusions about the way Clipper's VMM system operates
and the interpretation of the value returned by MEMORY(0).  The reason that
taking 60K out of the system via a TSR is that a minimum amount of RAM is
required to operate VMM at all.  Surely you are aware that some TSRs even
require additional memory at startup leaving a core in RAM.  You can allocate
a 5 MB array (even though you don't have 5 MB of RAM) and I'll bet that
MEMORY(0) returns approximately the same value.

You seem to know a lot about how the world ought to operate and I think
we could all benefit from your expertise in compiler design... contact
Nantucket development and explain how you want things to work, they could
use a laugh.

Seriously if you use nothing else but logic, how do you explain the 1000s of
other Clipper developers who are using 5.01 successfully ?  You can't think
that I'm doing it wrong since I don't crash.

tom