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from: ANEKE & JEROME
date: 1998-02-02 07:57:00
subject: Re: Memory management and

From: "Aneke & Jerome" 
Subject: Re: Memory management and big array in PowerBASIC or QuickBASIC : 
Help
 
THANKS, i will try
 
Marc van den Dikkenberg a *crit dans le message
...
>On Sat, 31 Jan 1998 19:09:59 +0100, "Aneke & Jerome"
> wrote:
>
>>How to create an array or a chain pointer list more over the 640 Ko or 1
Mo
>>DOS limit ?
>>How to create * very big array (dim more than 33000) ?
>
>The recent versions of PB allow you to dimension an array as HUGE (using
>base memory) or VIRTUAL (using EMS), allowing you to create large arrays.
>(up to millions of handles, so 33000 is no problem)
>
>If you use a VIRTUAL array, the data will be stored above the 1 MB DOS
>limit. You have to load EMM386 for EMS, though.
>
>Or...
>Check out the ABC packets at http://www.xs4all.nl/~excel/pbabc.html
>There are a lot of sources in there that will allow you to access EMS or
>XMS memory from QuickBasic or PowerBasic.
>(As well as over a thousand other sources)
>
>>How to create pointer like in Pascal ?
>
>PB 3.2+ has build in support of pointers.
>
>>In fact i want to create dynamic data list. I can not predict the number
of
>>data i have to store (incoming from COM port and can not be store to disk)
>--
>Marc van den Dikkenberg
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