CompuServe Messages

I guess you missed the great debate on BIX, where I attempted to talk Commodore out of recommending that developers put calls in their software asking for 8 megabytes, thereby flushing all libraries out of the system. WShell is built as a shared library and is designed to exit memroy cleanly if someone asks for it, and since the aliases and resident commands are anchored to the library, they go away too. Programs like DPaint apparently flush memory to get rid of fonts or something, but it's a very system-unfriendly thing to do. Maybe when there are more developers building library-based software we can get other vendors to not flush memory needlessly. Until then, the only workaround is to keep the library open so it can't get expunged.