"remove from memory" doesn't

[Victor Eijkhout]

>  > I have a stack in file "foo.rev". Revolution is open; I save the
>  > stack and do "close and remove from memory".
>>
>>  In the finder I copy foo.rev => foo copy.rev; I drag this stack onto
>>  Revolution.
>>
>>  Now if I click a button for editing I get a message "A stack with the
>>  same name as the one you are trying to load is already open"
>
>What really is happening here is that the "name" of the file is not the name
>of the stack. So both 'foo.rev' and 'foo copy.rev' are probably called "foo"
>in RR. That confuses both RR and us humans.
>
>The solution is that you purge the stack in the application manager before
>opening the copy.

Ok. But what on earth does "close and purge from memory" do? It 
sounds pretty definite to me. It sounds like it would close it and 
purge it from memory.
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