>>Yes, I am looking at automating it too. Correct me if I am wrong but in my case I have a PC with 48 Megs. I have 4 other apps running (cd, vol control, MS Mail, MSIE30) plus the OS. VFP is showing 31 Meg front, 7 Meg back. It would appear to me I need to decrease the buffer size to prevent disk swapping, correct?
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>Reckon so!
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>NT probably takes 10-16MB, 95 around 6-8MB.
>MSIE30 isn't exactly lightweight, nor is MSMail (or do you mean Exchange?).
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>I would use SysInfo from the FoxPro Help|About dialog to check physical memory free.
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>Don't forget that it is a separate program. Click on the DIALOG to continue using VFP, don't close SysInfo. You can see it in the TaskBar under '95 and can swap from VFP so SysInfo to see the effect of your commands.
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>What do you think about the ( , 1) and ( , 2) issue - am I being overly distrustful of the operating system?


No, just wise! (s) I don't see why you need to know the disk swap size. It really does not matter. Kind of too late... (s)

Anyway, sounds like something to look into in my 'spare time'. (g)

Thanks
Tom