MG> Hpt has proven that Squish doesn't need this limit in 
 MG> 32-bit environments, because it's Squish compatible and 
 MG> it doesn't have the limit. It'll process anything as 
 MG> long as you have enough memory on your system.

 BS> Huh? Actually what does 32-bit environment has to do with a buffer size?

In a 16-bit environment, all data structures have to fit within 64Kbytes. 
With some compilers (or switches used by the compiler) the code has to keep
all data within 64K bytes or maybe 2 or so blocks of 64K bytes.

Remember, Squish and Maximus were running on 16-bit systems that had the
intel 64K byte segment limits, that resulted in certain compiler
restrictions.  In a 32-bit environment, you can have a flat (non-segmented)
memory structure.  While it has been a while since the nodelist was above
the version 6 index limits, which were based on 64K byte data segment
limits, the 32-bit environments could have junked some of those limits.....
 Some of the 16-bit limits haven't been raised, or significantly raised, in
the 32-bit versions of the code....

Scott coded for compact code.  At one point in time, I believe you could
run two copies of Max/Bink/Dos on a 640Kb computer with Desqview for the
multi-tasker.....  

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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