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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS ZIP 1.9 - How much memory needed?
- Message-ID: <3029@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 08:20:22 GMT
- References: <9209010105.AA06366@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <9209010105.AA06366@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim -- DTN 223-5747 -- Moved to MLO5-2/13A) writes:
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- >I shelled out of a DOS program, and have 279K free according to 4DOS.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >However, when I try to ZIP some files, I get the error message:
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- > Out of memory (window allocation)
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- >Is this because the DOS program is running in a DOS compatibility box under
- >OS/2, and I have the wrong type of memory? Is my environment too small?
- >Here's what 4DOS says I have:
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- If you are using OS/2 2.0 then using a new DOS box (an empty one) should
- solve the problem flawlessly.
-
- >- Jim
-
-
- Nico E. de Vries
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