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PKARC AND PKXARC ARE GREAT PROGRAMS. HOWEVER, HAVE YOU NOTICE THAT ON
SOME SYSTEMS YOU GET AN INSUFFICIENT MEMORY ERROR WHEN RUNNING
PKARC.COM. THIS IS BECAUSE PKARC.COM ONLY ALLOWS ENOUGH "ROOM"
FOR A 110 BYTE ENVIRONMENT. THE FOLLOWING IS A PROPOSED FIXED FOR
RUNNING PKARC.COM ON A COMPUTER WITH A ENVIRONMENT SIZE OF GREATER
THAN 512 BYTES. THIS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR MOST APPLICATIONS. I
HAVE TRACED THROUGH PKARC.COM ENOUGH TO FIGURE OUT ITS INITIALIZATION
PROCEDURES. I HAVE TESTED THE PATCH ON MY COMPUTER AND IT SEEMS TO
WORK. TO THOROUGHLY TEST IT HOWEVER, I WOULD HAVE TO TRACED THROUGH
ALL OF PKARC.COM. UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR THAT.
REMEMBER, I DO NOT WARRANT THIS FIXED, NOR AM I LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
CAUSED BY THIS FIX. BASICALLY, USE THIS PATCH AT YOUR OWN
DISCRETION. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW ANY FEEDBACK SINCE I AM RUNNING
THE PATCHED VERSION OF PKARC.COM AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW OF ANY
ANOMALIES.
PATCH
A>DEBUG ARC.COM
-E DS:417D
XXXX:417D 08.<07>
-W
-Q
THIS PATCH EFFECTIVELY DECREASES STACK SIZE BY 100H BYTES AND
INCREASES ENVIROMENT SIZE BY 100H BYTES. THE WORSE THAT SHOULD
HAPPEN IS THAT THE STACK WILL GROW OVER THE "COPY" OF THE ENVIROMENT.
WHICH IS NO GREAT LOSS.
PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS ON MIKE'S C BOARD 1-619-722-8724
HAPPY COMPUTING!
GARLAND WONG