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Message-ID: <1990Nov26.134304@earthsea.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu (Paul Gyugyi)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: fish3 eats memory (Does it?)
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In article <1990Nov25.170043.4312@athena.mit.edu>, shang@athena.mit.edu
(T. Shang) writes:
|> I recently found that the window3 version of FISH eats memory. Here
is what
|> happened.
|> "Open and close" FISH icon will reduce the amount of memory reported
by 
|> program manager considerably. In fact if I do enough (5) open and
close 
|> operations, the system hangs up. 
|> I got this program from cica and I am running windows on 80286
processor with
|> 2 MB of memory.
|> Am I wrong?

Actually, I don't think FISH releases any of the things it allocates.
I have 3meg of memory, so I didn't notice the memory being eaten from
running FISH, but I'm quite sure that FISH didn't release a display
context when exiting, causing dialog boxes to only partially appear.
I wrote a DDE control window that let you move the DDE submarine around
and fire at the fish using a video game direction button interface,
but never disributed it because of the stupid problems that FISH had.
I wish someone would either post the code or fix it to free up
resources
on exit.
--
Paul Gyugyi
gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu