Re: ProDOS Madness!

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <3jsnna$i4k@condor.ic.net> kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)
writes:
>Neil Parker (nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu) wrote:
>: By the way, if you're stuck using the slow Applesoft garbage collection
>: under DOS 3.3, you can make life considerably less painful by liberally
>: sprinkling your program with X=FRE(0).  This forces garbage collection,
>: and if you do it frequenty while the amount of garbage to be collected is
>: still relatively small, you won't have to worry about garbage building up
>: to the point where it becomes a problem.  I stick lots of these in any
>: routine that does heavy string manipulation.
>Bill Basham, the author of Diversi-DOS, wrote a program which was a vast 
>improvement on Applesoft's garbage collection code.  He put it into the 
>public domain, and it was published in Open-Apple at one point.  This may 
>be a better solution.

He isn't the only one who wrote such a thing.  Back in the Olden Days,
several Applesoft garbage collectors were published in the magazines.  I
think I remember one from Call -A.P.P.L.E. and maybe a couple from Nibble.

Unfortunately, I don't have copies of any of the above.  Judicious use of
FRE(0) may not be quite as elegant, but it does work.

               - Neil Parker
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