Thanks Marcel. I've made the change and as expected it works fine. However there must have been a logical reason for using the old method. I seem to remember the memory reported by MT.FREE was a significantly greater than what was actually available. Cheers Malcolm
Marcel Kilgus wrote: >Norman Dunbar wrote: > >>I wonder why our results differ from his - unless Marcel has 'furkled' with >>FREE_MEM in QPC source. >> > >Have a look at http://www.kilgus.net/qpc/versionssms.html ;-) > >sms.frtp is the key. In all other SMSQ versions it does the same >calculations as you do, so if you use it you're always on the safe >side. Cueshell for example uses it and has no problem (therefore I >expect that it's the right thing to do under QDOS, too). > >Marcel > >