🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan8.182534.14955@lds.loral.com> eastwood@lds.loral.com (Jeff Eastwood 5304) writes:
>
>I'm using DEC's PHIGS rel. 2.3C under VMS/POSIX on a VAXstation 4000. I can't
>start a second instance of a trivial application (one that just opens up phigs,
>writes a line of text, posts it, and closes.)  The first invocation works
>fine. The second (started while the first is still running) fails in the
>popenws() call. The workstation we are using is the PPWSTYPE_MOTIF_PEX_WIDGET
>type.
>
>The guess is that too many colormaps are being allocated, so that the 2nd invocation
>can't alloc it's share. I've tried setting the various logicals, such as
>phigs$num_red_for_true, ...blue_for_true, ...green_for_true, and phigs$num_pseudo_colors,
>to small values (even 2). This does not help.
>
>Thanks for any ideas you might provide,
>
>Jeff Eastwood
>(813)-371-0811 x5304
>

And the answer is: don't try to run > 1 instance, when the executable is 
linked with /DEBUG. Debug executable size is ~10M; non-debug version
is ~1.5M.

Kudos to Keith Baccki for suggesting this solution.