Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:35328 alt.msdos.programmer:420 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!bionet!ig!krone 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! :-( Message-ID: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. Lines: 22 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