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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: more on HD cataloging XCMD troubles
Message-ID: <20642@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 88 16:49:36 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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It seems that your XCMDs have several major bugs in them.  Too much
recursion messages rarely come from properly written scripts.  Usually
an OpenCard handler sends another OpenCard message or something like
that.  As for the array of 500 fileNames, you didn't mention your array
size by 500*256 character names is 128KB of RAM, which just isn't
available on a MacPlus running in 1 MB.  Moving into the paint tools
seems to be an indication of another memory related bug.  Are you
checking all NewPtr calls to see if they return a nil value?

Dan Allen
Apple Computer