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From: fxa@berlin.acss.umn.edu (Farhad Anklesaria)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: freeSize of stacks
Keywords: text freeSize compact-stack
Message-ID: <255@berlin.acss.umn.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 88 17:05:00 GMT
Organization: U of M MicroGroup, Minneapolis
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I have a stack that I'm using to accumulate text clippings from news
and mail.  It's indexed in an ad-hoc way, so I can find what I want; it
has grown to about 200K in size.  It has no fancy pictures, just text.
Periodically, I paste from 5 to 20K worth of text into this stack.
After the paste, I note that the free-space (from the stack info dialog
or "the freeSize of this stack") in the stack jumps up.  For a while it
would be 8-10K free space.  Now its getting to be 30-40K free-space
after any paste.

Annoying.  Bug or feature?

Farhad Anklesaria                                 fxa@berlin.acss.umn.edu
Microcomputer and Workstation Systems Group       farhad@ux.acss.umn.edu
132 Shepherd Labs                                 farhad@vx.acss.umn.edu
University of Minnesota                           farhad@UMNACVX.BITNET
Minneapolis, MN 55455