Hello Marc!

06 Jan 04 23:48, Marc Lewis wrote to Mike Tripp:

 ML> In fact, Mike, the swap file is on drive I:, an 18G partition.  And,
 ML> oddly enough the problem is that SpaceHog, which I ran on that drive,
 ML> ate up all but 2G (which is what it was supposed to do).  Maximus does
 ML> not like that.  I deleted 2 of the 2G files that SpaceHog created and
 ML> sure enough, Maximus now sez I have 65+M left in the heap.  Go figure!
 ML> Somthin' ain't kosher, IMHO.

Those are some really odd numbers, and I never would've expected 4gb =more=
free space to cure it.  Sounds like an unsigned int stored in a signed int
variable or a 32-bit return interpreted as a 16-bit (maxp.exe) value. Could
be a code bug or a Watcom bug.  I have a DOS search-n-replace util
(ALTER.EXE) that displays a count while it works and it ping-pongs between
positive and negative while it works against a lot of hits. :)

Would be interesting to see if freeing more 2gb at a time causes more
ranges from +/-.  Unfortunately, my OS/2 box isn't beefy enough to conduct
that experiment. :)

.\\ike

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