Product specifications

FILE ALLOCATION
Sharp Electronics Corporation
If the file that is being calculated is opened at default, you should subtract the number of
bytes the file uses at default from the value derived by the formula shown above. The
result will be the amount of ADDITIONAL RAM required, or if the file size is being
decreased, the amount of RAM freed.
Remember that the Label Size must be added to the Record Length in order to get the
actual number of bytes required for each record.
When calculating memory, it’s also important to remember that if the number of records (or
blocks) of a Primary file is changed, the files that follow the primary’s size will also be
changed. This is especially important in IRC. For example, if the number of PLU items is
changed in an IRC Master using SAVE files, the SAVE PLU, Receive PLU, and
Consolidation PLU Files will be automatically changed by the same amount.
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