>>> I guess it is a bugette (or possibly a feature!)
>>> 
>>> Rod
>>> 
>> Yup. Reported to Staz.
>> 
>
>in the queue. 
>
>waiting for a programmer with a pointy toed boot.
>
>-STAZ  ~)~ 
>
Rod, et al.

Robert P. says this is fixed for future updates. Meanwhile, you can plop 
this override into your project to correct the misbehavior:

local
dim newHndl&
override local fn FBNewContainer(length&)
newHndl& = fn newhandle(length&)
long if fn memerror
shutdown "Container: Out of memory Creating "+str$(length&)+" bytes."
xelse
long if fn freemem < 16384
shutdown "Container: Low Memory Creating "+str$(length&)+" bytes."
end if
end if
end fn = newHndl&

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