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- From: Hσvard Pedersen <havardp@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!?
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:21:52 -0700
- Organization: HIT
- Message-ID: <3175D170.6722@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no>
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- Jeff Lavin wrote:
- > Avail FLUSH only asks for up to 8 megs of memory. I really have no idea
- > why they chose to write it that way. You must use something else.
- > Basically, anything that will try to allocate more memory than is
- > available will cause a system memory panic and release resources that are
- > not in use.
-
- In fact, there are even easier ways to accomplish this. AllocMem(0) also does
- the trick.
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