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At 19 FEB 1999 08:53:01AM Mats Gefvert wrote:

AREV Specific

I get this strange problem with Arev 3.12. Suddenly it breaks and gives me what looks like a blue screen of death, with the error message

B114 Maximum number of variables exceeded.

Now, as far as I know, I'm not being over-consumptive about variables or arrays or anything like that. From time to time probably all users in our company experiences that, especially if they leave their computer on for some time, logged into Arev. And my program, which scans a directory for certain files, reads them, queries the databases and writes back a reply in a different file, breaks down within half a minute. And as far as I know I use only a few variables, the files I read are 10 to 15 bytes in size, they are read into the same variable and nothing much else.

What's wrong? Has our banking system finally grown too large?

Is there anything I can do to solve the problem? Can I release unused variables from the memory, for instance? Any suggestions? Hints?

Regards,

Mats Gefvert

At 19 FEB 1999 09:04AM Mats Gefvert wrote:

Just to provide more information. This is a screen dump of the last few seconds of program time:

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Line 54 'JAKQUERY' broke because the BREAK key was pressed.

Press Esc to cancel the program or G to continue.

!# Statistics after garbage collect:
  There are 1,797 descriptors used.
  There are 205,564 bytes of string space free.
  The PROGRAMS array consumes 151,838 bytes of memory.
!g
         ...programs runs almost idly for a second or two...
'AKR.MFS' Line 1. B114 Maximum number of variables exceeded.

Line 1 'RPT18' broke because a run time error was encountered.

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…and after that, there is no mercy. After a few escapes, and after a few similar error messages, I'm thrown out into Windows 95 again.

Mats Gefvert

At 19 FEB 1999 01:56PM victor_engel@dell.com wrote:

Looks like maybe you have a buggy MFS. Do you have the source to it? Feel free to email it to me, and I'll take a look at it.

At 22 FEB 1999 06:59AM Bo Follaug/Celest Systems wrote:

Mats,

Edit JAKQUERY, you'll probably find it in JAK_BP, and go to line 56 (Ctrl +G). Look for the command Debug.

If you find a debug command in that line, put a star * in front and compile the program by pressing Shift +F9

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