>>>>Have a brand new machine running Windows 7 64 Bit with 8 Gig or RAM.
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>>>>Have used the statement SYS(3050, 1, VAL(SYS(3050,1,0))/3) for allocating Memory for years without a problem. Also runs OK on Win 7 both 32 & 64 Bit machines with 4 Gig of Memory.
>>>>
>>>>Have read on Wik: i http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~sys3050 that the old 1/3 trick doesn't work on machines with more than 6 Gig or RAM.
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>>>>Also see that SYS(3050,1,0) returns a negative number on my 8 Gig machine.
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>>>It returns a positive number on my machine: 2943090688
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>>>
>>>Intel Core i5-750, 8GB RAM, Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
>>>VFP9 SP2 build 7423
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>>Hi Al,
>>
>>On my machine: -1351876608
>>Intel I7 2720 QM 8 Gig RAM Win 7 Professional 64-bit
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>>Marshal
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>I got 2943090688 (same as Al). on Windows 7 64 bit.

Aha...am running SP1...must be a bug which was fixed in SP2..(am planning on installing a parallel SP2).

Thanks everyone..