[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Constants

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From: Sylvain Guillemette <allmedia@...>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 20:39:22 -0500
>> _resPurgeable = 5
>> Often, i see _resPurgeable as _resPurgeable%  (note the %)
>> Why ?
>
>_resPurgeable% means: "2 raised to the power of _resPurgeable."  Where
>_resPurgeable equals 5, _resPurgeable% equals 32.
>
>- Rick
>
>p.s.  I would like to point out that Netscape "froze" after I had
>_almost_ finished composing this reply but before I had saved it to
>disk.  I was able to drop into MacsBug, search Netscape's heap space for
>the buffer containing my near-complete message, write that chunk of
>memory to disk, and then reconstruct the message.  I wonder how easy
>that would have been on a Windows machine?


Thank you Rick for risking your life :-)

Great tutorial.

I'd really like to see these things explained in the FB manual.

Sylvain