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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: dos editor memory
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.010323.9572@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:03:23 -0400
- References: <28135@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- > Hi, I was trying to load a gif file into ms-dos editor tomake some changes,
- > and it loaded it up to 4609 lines and just said out of memory.
- > I'm using windows.
- > The file is 586000bytes big.
- > I tried to take windows off the memory resident programs I decreased the number
- > of buffers in config.sys, still not enough:I have 4MB of memory, and I'm using
- > a 386DX 40 Mhz:what can I do?
- > please reply by mail:
- > ba@caslon.cs.arizona.edu(if replying before dec. 17)
- > ece_0275@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu(if replying after dec 17)
- > Thank you in advance
- > MOUSSA>
-
- DOS's EDITor loads itself and QBasic into conventional memory before loading
- your text file, which leaves little room left over for anything else,
- especially a file that is almost 575kB. Since you have 4MB of memory, make
- sure that you are using HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE (or some extended memory
- managers) so that you can actually use it; as you probably are aware, most
- DOS programs don't directly access extended memory; they place calls to the
- extended memory manager(s) for memory allocation, but DOS's EDIT is *not* one
- of those programs. It uses only conventional memory (to my knowledge), so
- you will have to use another text editor that will allow you to load the
- whole GIF into memory. WP5.1 will allow you to do this with its Text In/Out
- feature. In WordPerfect, press CTRL-F5, select DOS Text (1), then select
- Retrieve and type filename.gif. To save back as DOS text, press ^F5 again
- and select DOS Text, then select Save.
-
- I believe any of the newer Norton editors will also use extended memory
- for loading text files.
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