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- From: bytey@werple.apana.org.au (Chris Hames)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Flushing Devices; C= doco (mutter!)
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 16:23:40 +1100
- Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
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- References: <1993Jan7.092127.13752@philips.oz.au>
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- gduncan@philips.oz.au (Gary Duncan) writes:
-
- >
- >A few days ago I posed a question on how to flush unused
- >devices out of RAM from a program (as distinct from doing it from the
- >command line using "Avail Flush", for example). Nothing in the
- >RKMs seemed to answer this question (but read on).
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- Note that "Avail FLUSH" has a bit of a bug anyway. To flush it only
- tries to allocate 8 Meg(-1). Problem is many machines now have 16meg or
- more so the allocate succeeds and no flush is done!
-
- >Gary Duncan gduncan@rosella.pts.philips.oz.au
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- Chris Hames
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