It sure seems that you could eliminate it. Its' function was to provide 32 bit addressing in 16 bit space, IIRC and given (at least Winnt 3.1 and UP) 32 bit Windows provides CMD.EXE for 32 bit.....but on Win9x you would be hosed :-(
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Elusive Virtual Memory Problems, RB65++, Win2K,XP > Gunnar, and all, > > The real problem still eludes us all. I have had samples that would > exhibit the behaviour in one run , but not in another. There is > something very inconsistent troubling us here. How to nail it down? > Beats me. Probably too many variables thrown at us by a terribly > inconsistent operating system and unknown varibables with DOS4GW. > > I wonder if there is any way to eliminate DOS4GW as a player in this. > After all, nobody in his right mind is running pure DOS anymore, or > perhaps they are the only same ones, LOL. It sure would narrow the > players involved of we could eliminate the need for DOS4GW. > > Dennis McGrath > > > > Dennis McGrath > > --- Gunnar Ekblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mike W. member of Dream team. > > > > 1. I did stick my neck out and promised you a one table db with one > > commandfile to replicate the NTVDM error. > > 2. Beeing the Turkey I am I must confess I lost my neck! > > 3. I cant replicate in CONCOMP, further more after downloading a 4 > > months > > old DB with my original Commandfile I cant even replicate in my own > > database. In > > 4. By counting the number of gray hairs I recived from may to > > September 2003 > > I know the issue was there. > > 5. This mail is just to tell all who are suffering from the Issue, > > that I > > can now see why RBTI cant solve a problem being so elusive. > > 6. I still hope you continue hunting and clear it for 7.0 Dos. > > > > Gunnar Ekblad > > > > > > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > > Fr�n: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F�r Mike > > Willochell > > Skickat: den 14 november 2003 23:11 > > Till: RBASE-L Mailing List > > �mne: [RBASE-L] - RE: Virtual Memory Problems, RB65++, Win2K > > > > At 01:24 PM 11/14/2003 -0800, you wrote: > > >The only way I have found to trigger off the offending memory leak > > is > > >to use > > >ZIP RETURN whatevercommand > > >somewhere in the code. > > > > > > From that point on, until I exit RBase for DOS, any database access > > >leaks memory. > > > > Dennis; > > > > At last we have an example of a simple block of code that causes the > > memory leak! You are correct that the ZIP command is the culprit in > > this example. > > > > I am creating an example for our programmers, so if anyone knows of > > other marauding commands that cause the same leak, please let me > > know ASAP. > > > > While the development on 6.5++ is done, I can tell you that it will > > be > > fixed in version 7.0 for DOS. > > > > Thanks for the sample. > > > > Mike > > > > > >
