What's wrong about it? The low level functions take *much* longer to process. 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hill
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:29 PM
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Subject: Re: Memory compaction/clean up

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just had an app blow up while loading a 1.3g file via file2str(). It was 
> the second file that size, the
> first one processed ok. I was able to process the second, but only after 
> re-booting the machine, so I'm
> wondering if there are any memory compaction/clean up routines I can call in 
> the app that are somewhat less
> extreme.
> This is not to say that my app is at fault, however, there's plenty of other 
> stuff running that has nothing
to
> do with vfp & the machine hadn't been rebooted for a few days.

If you're loading a 1.3Gb file into memory you're probably doing
something wrong...

Can't you process the file in chunks with FRead() or FGets()?

-- 
Paul


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