On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Granted LC should never crash, it whould warn the end user that the data > exceeds limits, but if I understand what you are doing, it's unreasonable > to expect any application to do this. > > An, err, long time ago, I found that I could consistently crash both FreeBSD and Linux by loading a file larger than virtual memory into a binary editor . . . (I had had to make an image of a hard disk to search for versions of a paper when ~ got deleted. While an older machine, the hard drive than even VM on the other machine. I eventually got the paper back [maybe I split the file?] . . . just manipulating it was no small task. [maybe I finally filtered the disk through strings or tr to a file on a zip disk for transport?]) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
