>>>>>>Have a brand new machine running Windows 7 64 Bit with 8 Gig or RAM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Also see that SYS(3050,1,0) returns a negative number on my 8 Gig machine.
>>>>>
>>>>>It returns a positive number on my machine: 2943090688
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Intel Core i5-750, 8GB RAM, Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
>>>>>VFP9 SP2 build 7423
>>>>
>>>>Hi Al,
>>>>
>>>>On my machine: -1351876608
>>>>Intel I7 2720 QM 8 Gig RAM Win 7 Professional 64-bit
>>>>
>>>>Marshal
>>>
>>>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).
>
>Hi,
>
>Just out of curiosity, why do you install a parallel ?
>I would install SP2 with Hotfixes this is the one and only good VFP in my opinion.
>Check also the various postings about yes/no SP2 yes/no Hotfixes.
>Regards,
>Koen
>>
>>Thanks everyone..

Hi Koen,

I have numerous applications installed on client's machines with SP1 that run just fine and don't wish or need to update their systems.
Will be looking to using SP2 going forward but will still need to support current SP1 clients.

Marshal