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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 11:22:06 EDT
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- From: Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
- Subject: RE: No overflow: D: message
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- Ran Chermesh writes of a "No overflow: D:" message and lockup, and tells that
- he tried:
-
- >1. Problems with my D: RAM disk. I changed the definition in the default.set
- >file to C:. The problem persisted.
-
- Just yesterday I wrote a message to this list regarding this, in a follow-up
- of an exchange from a month or so ago. I have found two solutions (more
- accurately, I found one, on the basis of suggestions from this list, and,
- in a late-night phone call yesterday, Paul Bodin told me the other):
-
- 1) make your Ram disk equal to or bigger than 1024K; somehow that seemed
- to satisfy my system (before I had it at 512K); PC-Kwik, and for all I
- know, other programs, can dynamically adjust the size of the RAM disk
- as needed, to free up the RAM for other purposes when the D: drive is
- not actually full;
-
- 2) [Courtesy of Paul Bodin, and undocumented, I believe]:
- if you use c: as a spill, and have enough room there, of course,
- you must put c:\ in the "dr" setting in default.set--ie the root directory
- listing as well, to let NB know where the spills are if you switch
- dirs while working; Paul also tells me that any subdir will not
- work (although I haven't tried this); the c:\ does work, however;
- 2b. One would think--and Paul assumed this would work, but it didn't,
- that the same would apply to d:--i.e., put d:\, but my system still
- locks up, when used w/ 512K D:.
-
- Of course, I am assuming that all will be transformed in latter days,
- w/ NB4, and our troubles will be as a dream that passeth [replaced
- by new ones . . . .].
-
-
- Hope this works,
-
- Robert Braham
- Bitnet: RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
- Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
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