Re: file size limit for read command (OS 9)??
Re: file size limit for read command (OS 9)??
- Subject: Re: file size limit for read command (OS 9)??
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 03:07:30 -0500
On or about 1/18/03 12:51 AM, Donald Hall wrote:
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I have a script that reads in a 1.1 MB file in OS 9.2.2. This script
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is run by another script (an applet) with the "run script" command. I
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get an out of memory error (-108) even if I allot 8 MB to my script
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runner. When I watch the runner's memory usage in 'About this
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Computer', it is clear that less than half the assigned 8 MB ever
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gets used, but I still get the -108 message. If I run the same set up
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in Classic in OS X, everything works fine.
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Is there some limit to the number of bytes I can read in at the same
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time in OS 9.2.2? (The script reads the data in, processes it, then
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writes it out to a second file. The way the script is now written,
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both files are open at the same time.)
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Thanks,
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Don
Don,
I am experiencing this same error number, and made a note of it in my
current script project.
In my case, it is thrown (oddly, it seems) when a local file has been
inserted into a FileMaker container _as a reference_ (not embedded) and then
subsequently is moved or missing. When my script gets the contents of such a
field, this error is produced.
So, I've accepted the seemingly unrelated (in description) error and added
it to my try block so I can handle it accordingly. It's ugly, but it works.
This is my own note, in my error handler:
-- [-108] Not enough memory ... throws this error if the file reference is
now missing ... odd but it'll do
Your script, dealing with reading/writing files, and my script have file
references in common (although mine is in a FM tell block, it makes sense
that FM would have to do its own communication with the file system to
return the current information).
So, I am now wondering if your error -108 is also being given when the real
problem is something to do with the file you are reading/writing?
Or perhaps from the thread I'll learn of a less error-leaning way to
determine the validity of a FM-to-file reference, as the -108 seems to be
the only way to determine that information by script (the class of the cell
still returns 'picture'...not helpful.)
I also am using OS9, but v9.1.2, and AS 1.8
--
Gary
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