I am working on a Qbasic app that was created long ago by another programmer. I am getting Out of Memory errors whenever I attempt to run a shell program. Any suggestions??? The shell command seems to work fine in 27 out of 28 Qbasic apps we are running. I am trying to reduce the amount of variables used but am not sure I will be able to and still have a functional program. Thank You in Advance.
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Out Of Memory (Shell Command)
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It is trying to run the SHELL program in Qbasic's memory. I think once you compile the program you won't have that problem any more
No... your QB programs free memory is just smaller then what DOS needs to run, compiled and uncompiled. Once you get your program over a few KB, that happens... the only thing you can do is reduce the memory footprint of your application... or use a shell workaround. What are you trying to do with Shell? Perhaps we can come up with an alternitive.
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