A call for help

[Leslie Bialler]

On 1-MAY-1996 17:50:14.3 xywrite said to LESLIE319
  >This message is for anyone with the necessary expertise or experience
  >able to assist me! I have a printing problem under XyW 3+ in the
  >following system config: OS/2 v.3 on a 386/33 (old) and a Lexmark
  >4029 printer.
  >When I attempt to print a series of files (large: 60k to 120k of
  >heavily formatted text) I begin to get error messages such as
  >"insufficient memory" followed then by "formatting command not
  >recognized" and the like.
  >I've assigned a large chunk of mem in the OS/2 DOS setting for XyW
  >and use of the MEM command in XyW reaveals nothing unusual. I've also
  >experimented with both helvetica and times faces, to try to work
  >around this problem: no luck. Any thoughts? (Does anyone else out
  >there run 3+ under OS/2? I would love to have a contact on this, as
  >the voice-based tech support preople are uninterested, of course!)
  >Thanks for any words of advice. David Rich

  David,
  That error message usually means that you have an extra format chevron in your file(s)
someplace. It doesn't matter how powerful your rig is. Or what your op sys is. If my
hunch is right, you would have gotten the same message if you were running an 8088 with
DOS 3.3 and a Star 9-pin printer.

I suggest the following steps.

1. In normal mode search for a closing chevron. If you find it, you will find the
improper formatting command and your problem will be solved. If not,

2. Go into expanded and search for two close chevrons. If that doth not work,

3. Go to expanded mode and search for open chevron wild string close chevron. Hopefully
you will find it that way. Finally, if that does not work,

4. Search for all open chevrons and replace them with the < then search for all the close
chevrons and replace them with the >. That should certainly do the job, but finding the
culprit will be tedious more than somewhat.

Since you mention a series of files you may have to do this for every one.
As you didn't say whether you chain print or not, I'm not sure as to the extent of the
damage.

Good luck, pard!

--Leslie--

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