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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShrinkIt v1.0
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Date: 12 Mar 89 22:53:52 GMT
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>Why can ShrinkIt v1.0 not be run from BASIC like the older versions? Is it
>doing something non-standard which causes it not to work like a SYS program
>normally would?

ShrinkIt 1.0 and 1.1 cannot be run from BASIC.SYSTEM because they are too
large for basic to load.  If you want to run shrinkit, I suggest you get a
program launcher like ProSel or ecp8 (which is freeware now, btw).

BASIC.SYSTEM just "happens" to be able to launch other SYS files, like a
"normal" program launcher, but it only can load stuff between $2000 and
$9600, the base of its internal buffers.  Anything that is extremely large
is impossible for basic.system to launch.

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Andy Nicholas                  CsNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu
Box 435, Moravian College   InterNET: shrinkit%moravian.edu@relay.cs.net 
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