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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LightSpeed Pascal bug? (Or perhaps
Message-ID: <46100103@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 88 00:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Mar  1 18:42:00 1988


omh@nancy(Owen Hartness) writes in comp.sys.mac

>In article <1199@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (uucp) writes:
>>I have discovered a problem while using LightSpeed Pascal, I hope
>>someone can shed some light on it.
>>
>>[description of problem follows ... includes mentioning SigmaEdit as culprit]
>
>This is not just a problem with SigmaEdit, but with any desk accessory
>which allocates any appreciable space  (Even some DAs which use only a little
>memory will cause it if called often enough from the environment).
>
>As a matter of fact, once you get this message there's no way out except
>returning to the finder.
>
	After having spent the last couple of days (and nights) working with
Rich Siegel (from Think) to solve the problem and to figure out the reason. 
Let me see what I can do to clear up the problem and offer a solution.

	When a DA is opened, one of the things that happens is that it is 
allocated storage by the system itself as well as then being able to allocate
add'l storage for other things by itself.  Well SigmaEdit does a pretty good
job of cleaning up after itself, but I realized that I WAS NOT cleaning up
after the system (an oversight on my part).  Well now that SigmaEdit also 
does this clean up job, it runs just fine with Lightspeed Pascal without the
memory message.  I will be putting together an intermediate version (1.11, I
think) for distribution which has this fix in it, as well as a few new features
that will later be seen in the 1.2 release (I don't feel like taking them out.)
I will post it to the net as soon as I get it togetther for shipping (tommorrow
maybe ???) so that this is cleared up once and for all!!

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