Re: AVAIL FLUSH stopped working!?

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From: Håvard Pedersen
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 05:21

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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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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 22:21:52 -0700
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