kenv@pro-newfrontier.UUCP (Ken Vatz) (10/05/88)
Wordbench, which is a P8 program, acts peculiarly when launched from P16 or GS/OS. If you warm boot into Wordbench using P8 (1.4 and above), WB finds available memory in RAM (up to several hundred K), then releases it on quitting. If you boot into GS/OS first (or P16), then go to P8 and the Wordbench system, it finds the memory, but on quitting usually does not release it. It also acts this way if you boot into P8 but add CDA's via P8CDA. Interestingly, if WB has not released the memory, and you then go into Appleworks 2.0 and then quit Appleworks, AW will have released the memory completely if you booted into P16 initially, incompletely if you booted into GS/OS initially. I talked to one of Wordbench's developers about this. He said that the program deals with the Memory Manager following Apple's guidelines, and he doesn't understand why P16, GS/OS or CDA's should interfere with memory clearance. He said it is even stranger that Appleworks should clear the memory. Does anyone have an idea about this? Is there a utility around that can be used to clear IIGS RAM memory when a program fails to release it? UUCP: crash!pro-newfrontier!Ken Vatz ARPA: crash!pro-newfrontier!Ken Vatz@nosc.mil INET: Ken Vatz@pro-newfrontier.cts.com Proline: Ken Vatz@pro-newfrontier