Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data
From: Pete Hall <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 01:18:21 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:46:18 -0600, David Gibbs wrote:

On 11/30/2011 11:37 AM, Monnier, Gary wrote:

Can you use a user space? That gives you 16 Mb.

I will still need to use C api's to manipulate the contents.

Actually, no, once you get the space pointer to the user space (there's
an old Q* API for that. QUSPTRUS I think) and assign a variable to the
pointer, you can treat it like internal storage. Probably need to do a
little windowing/paging via pointer arithmetic, but pretty straight-
forward. Used to do it quite a bit before there was a heap.

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