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From: krone@presto.ig.com (Larry Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: BUG in PCDOS 3.30 - The RAM Eater from Hell! :-(
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Date: 26 Sep 89 21:59:38 GMT
References: <1989Sep26.202524.27381@Octopus.COM>
Reply-To: krone@PRESTO.IG.COM.UUCP (Larry Krone)
Organization: IntelliGenetics Inc., Mtn. View, Ca.
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In article <1989Sep26.202524.27381@Octopus.COM> pete@octopus.COM (Pete Holzmann) writes:
>I've found a bug in IBM PC-DOS 3.30, which may also exist in later versions
>(although I haven't checked). 
>
>The Bug: If you increase the # of files available to a program (using Int 21
>    function 67h), DOS allocates a 64K+ chunk of ram to hold the information,
>    rather than the few  bytes it really needs (really only needs 1 byte per
>    file). This function works just fine under MSDOS.
>


Does anybody know if the product BTRIEVE put out by novell / softcraft is
subject to this bug....



Thanx,


Larry Krone

KRONE@PRESTO.IG.COM