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- Recouping Some Memory with MexPlus
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- If you're pinched for memory running MexPlus (perhaps under the equally
- memory-hungry ZCPR3), there are a few things you can do to relieve the
- pressure.
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- 1) If you can live without the help file, you can save 700 bytes by
- zapping the help index. Do
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- POKE $0D80 $0
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- then use CLONE to make a new MEX. Don't use HELP after doing this
- though (it won't break anything, but will print a mystifying error
- message).
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- 2) If you don't use keystrings much, you can decrease the size of the
- keystring buffer from its default 400 bytes. You must modify the
- patch file (currently, MEXPAT21.ASM). Change the KYSIZE equate,
- and assemble and overlay the patch file onto a virgin MEX, as per
- the instructions in MEXPAT21.
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- 3) If you don't use the full 30 numbers in the default-sized phone
- library, you can save 63 bytes per entry by decreasing the number
- of entries in the library. Change the PHSIZE equate in MEXPAT21
- from its default setting of 30.
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-
-
- --Ron Fowler
- NightOwl Software, Inc.
- 23 July 1985
- ntly, MEXPAT21.ASM). Change the KYSIZE equate,
- and assemble and overlay the patch file onto a virgin MEX, as per
- the instructions in MEXPAT21.
-
- 3) If you don't use the full 30 numbers in the default-sized phone
- library, you can save 63 bytes per entry by decreasing the number
- of entries in the library. Change the PHSIZE equate in MEXPAT21
- from its default s