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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: TAD/ADpro information.
Message-ID: <1991May27.200933.1303@crash.cts.com>
Date: 27 May 91 20:09:33 GMT
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ADPro grabs the largest contiguous chunk of FAST memory it can find
when it runs. If that chunk is 1 meg or 453K or 8 meg or whatever
it is, ADPro will grab the whole thing.  It does not allocate memory
dymanically.  If you want to tell it, at runtime, to grab less than
your largest contiguous chunk of FAST memory available, then you can
give it a command to do so.  If, say, you had a bunch of files sitting
in RAM at the time you ran ADPro and then after running it, decided
that you needed to throw some more memory at it, deleting the files
from RAM wouldn't do it. You'd have to delete those files, quit ADPro
and run it again.  No big deal.

Yes the ARexx support allows access to all of the commands that
are in the program's interface. I don't know if there are any ARexx
only commands that can't be duplicated in the interface, but I'd
guess there are not. 

By the way, if it's The Art Dept. you've been looking at, consider
that Art Dept. Professional offers a LOT more features, not to mention
Savers as well as loaders and operators.  There's just a whole lot
more to it.