Hi Paul



Replying to my own msg 



 PM> You'll also need to increase the stack size, as it

 PM> allocates some large structures as local variables.



RM> Haven't struck that problem yet. Is it likely to be something that

RM> the compiler will spot?



No problem there. One of the debug options under BC4 looks for

stack overflow. And there seems to be no way to alter the stack

size for dos (non-Win) programs. The docs are no help here, took me

hours to work it out. However, turning the fattest local structure

array into a runtime memory grab with "new" fixed the stack problem

easily.



I'm afraid that what I'm doing to your lovely program in the name

of memory saving will look to you like axe murdering, however...



Sorry.....



Cheers



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