Re: ProDOS Madness!

[kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

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.

:                - Neil Parker

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