fxa@berlin.acss.umn.edu (Farhad Anklesaria) (11/16/88)
I have a stack that I'm using to accumulate text clippings from news and mail. It's indexed in an ad-hoc way, so I can find what I want; it has grown to about 200K in size. It has no fancy pictures, just text. Periodically, I paste from 5 to 20K worth of text into this stack. After the paste, I note that the free-space (from the stack info dialog or "the freeSize of this stack") in the stack jumps up. For a while it would be 8-10K free space. Now its getting to be 30-40K free-space after any paste. Annoying. Bug or feature? Farhad Anklesaria fxa@berlin.acss.umn.edu Microcomputer and Workstation Systems Group farhad@ux.acss.umn.edu 132 Shepherd Labs farhad@vx.acss.umn.edu University of Minnesota farhad@UMNACVX.BITNET Minneapolis, MN 55455
dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (11/16/88)
In article <255@berlin.acss.umn.edu> fxa@berlin.acss.umn.edu (Farhad Anklesaria) writes: > >I have a stack that I'm using to accumulate text clippings from news >and mail. It's indexed in an ad-hoc way, so I can find what I want; it >has grown to about 200K in size. It has no fancy pictures, just text. >Periodically, I paste from 5 to 20K worth of text into this stack. >After the paste, I note that the free-space (from the stack info dialog >or "the freeSize of this stack") in the stack jumps up. For a while it >would be 8-10K free space. Now its getting to be 30-40K free-space >after any paste. > >Annoying. Bug or feature? Neither. This behavior is simply a by-product of how HyperCard manages space on the disk. As holes are created, HyperCard fills them up when possible, but if you paste an object that won't fit in any hole HyperCard makes more space at the end of the file. A stack is actually treated somewhat like the Macintosh Memory Manager treats a heap in an application zone, if you want a technical analogy. Dan Allen HyperCard Team Software Explorer Apple Computer