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- From: Christian_Vogler@hh2.maus.de (Christian Vogler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Not enough memory...
- Message-ID: <A12205@HH2.maus.de>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 11:47:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: HH2.A12205
- References: <A62161@HB.maus.de>
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- In article <1992Sep3.143732.26091@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
- HUTTER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Do, 03.09.92 15:37) (Wolfgang Hutter) writes:
-
- >This may be too stupid for some of you, but if so just skip the message.
- >I just wanted to get some help on a problem that I encounter frequently
- >with my ATARI.
-
- Nonsense. There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers!!
-
- >I use a 1040STFM with the Blitter-TOS (1.02?). The thing that troubles
- >me is that the system comes up frequently with a message like 'Not
- >enough memory for this application' although the whole memory should be
- >free. Any hints?
-
- There are a lot of bugs in TOS 1.02 concerning usage of memory, but I'm not
- sure.
- Another possibility could be that your DESKTOP.INF is about as large as 1024
- bytes. This is the limit for older TOSes (below 2.xx). If many windows are
- open, the Desktop stores the info in the internal buffer which also is only 1K
- big. So the Desktop runs out of internal memory...
- In TOS 2.xx/3.xx the buffer is at least 4K big...
- Best would be to use TOS 1.04 (you can get it used) (for this you need a
- patch, too, though) or the newer TOS 2.06.
-
- >Another thing that is annoying is that I can't get programs installed as
- >applications so that I can double-click the text-file e.g. instead of
- >the editor. The system always says that 'the application can't find the
- >desired object' after looking on drive A: when I didn't ask for anithing
- >on drive A:. It works well from within GEMINI, but not from the GEM
- >desktop. What's wrong?
-
- Simple. TOS 1.02 does not store the path of the application. So, if the object
- is in a different directory, the application can of course not be found.
- TOS 1.04, 1.06 and 1.62 store the path, too, but set the object's directory as
- default. Some of the programs can't find their data files then, but this is the
- case only with "dirty" programs (many older ones behave like this).
- In TOS 2.06 you can instruct the desktop to set the application's directory as
- default.
- So, the solution is either to use GEMINI or TOS 2.06. There is no other way.
- Or you could edit the DESKTOP.INF and write the full path of the application:
- Before:
- #G 03 FF MYPROG.PRG @ *.XXX @
- After:
- #G 03 FF C:\MYPATH\MPROG.PRG @ *.XXX @
- Beware of the 1K limit, though. And the problem with "dirty" apps still exists.
-
- with regards
- Christian
-
- Christian_Vogler@hh2.maus.de
-