Q62211: "Out of String Space" Using DB/lib

Article: Q62211
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 4.50
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# S900406-40 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 25-MAY-1990

A customer reported that when using DB/lib with Microsoft QuickBASIC
Compiler version 4.50 for MS-DOS, he received an "Out of string space"
error when running his program. The solution to the problem was to
decrease the number stored in the "DBPOOL" environment variable.
According to the customer, this environment variable allocates memory
for DB/lib, apparently from string space. He said that the default
value for this variable was 64 (meaning 64K). When he set DBPOOL to
16, his program functioned normally.

Although this problem has not been duplicated by Microsoft, AJS
Publishing, the developer of DB/lib, has confirmed the above
information about the DBPOOL environment variable and the possibility
of a memory conflict with QuickBASIC.

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