Re: file "dimensions"

[Mark Garvey dutch_garvey@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Jordan:

Thanks very much for the note. You're probably exactly
right about the sp*m filters stopping my mail. It's an
interesting tradeoff, isn't it? The IT dept at my
company (a large publisher) recently implemented a new
sp@m filtering scheme that has caused just about as
many problems as the sp@m did in the first place!

I very much appreciate your taking time to write. I
will try out all the steps you recommend. I've never
experimented with using the default-DR command in
startup.int. I'm fairly accustomed to trying different
things with the startup file, so I'll give that a
whirl.

Thanks again,

Mark

--- "J. R. Fox"  wrote:
> Mark Garvey wrote:
>
> > Not sure this question made it through to the
> list.
> > Can anyone take a stab at my file size question?
>
> Mark,
>
> Not so Off the Wall theory: It may be because some
> have had to go to
> draconian mail filters, "size" being an all too
> common Sp*m buzzword.
> I haven't done that yet, but I've considered it.
> Almost deleted your
> message unread though, because I didn't recognize
> your name and
> suspected the worst based on your header. You
> wouldn't believe how
> much of this junk still manages to get through my
> filters. And I
> still can't believe how many people seem to be
> getting away with
> selling stuff like Vicodin and Percoset online. I'd
> just like not to
> have to receive all the solicitations for it, and
> the barrage of many
> other junk mail categories.
>
>
> > > I'm running XY3+ on an Omnibook 800CT that's
> booting
> > > to DOS. I'm finding that the program will not
> load
> > > large-ish files. I've got one that's 135K that
> won't
> > > open. Message: Can't create temp file. Out of
> > > memory.
> > > The machine's got 48MB of RAM.
>
> That should be plenty. I ran Xy-3+ for many years
> on hardware with a
> small fraction of those resources. Unless your hard
> drive is full up,
> it shouldn't be an issue. Elementary question
> (please excuse if too
> much so) : Do you have a line like the following
> present in your
> STARTUP.INT ?
>
>   BC Default DR=D:\Temp
>
> Where "D:\Temp" is a real, existing location
> (subdirectory), with a
> decent amount of free disk space. Substitute your
> own choice of
> "Temp" directory for the spillfile, according to the
> layout of your
> hard drive. (Mine was more typically on Drive F,
> but I always had
> quite a few partitions, and you may not, especially
> on a laptop. The
> "BC" on that line is a function call (which appears
> highlighted), not
> ordinary letters. There are various ways to enter
> it, but the easiest
> one is probably just to define & copy it from
> another line in your
> Startup file. Every line there is apt to begin with
> one. (The format
> of things in Startup.Int is a bit different for
> XY-4.)
>
> Since you are running real DOS, at a DOS prompt you
> might as well
> check how much free memory you have to load
> programs. Run the command
>
>  MEM /C | MORE
>
> and note what is reported for "Largest Executable
> Size."
>
> Memory managers are another issue, and they can
> somewhat stretch the
> amount of usable memory in which to load DOS
> programs, but I would not
> consider 135K all that large a file to load, even
> for XY-3+. If you
> load a file that exceeds what you have, it should
> get handled by the
> spillfile Xy will create (to disk), at which point
> you should see an
> "X" on the right side of your Xy Command Line.
>
> > > I tried some memory management in the config.sys
> > > file--loading himem, etc. But it didn't help.
>
> Get the basics working right, and *then* you can
> experiment with this.
>
> > > Any pointers or suggested key words for the
> archive
> > > search would be appreciated.
>
> "Xy3*" or "Xy-3*" AND "memory."
>
> > > Related question: As I said, I'm running a dual
> boot
> > > (boot to DOS, but can run Win98 when I need to).
> The
> > > config.sys file is empty. Will adding memory
> > > management commands into that empty config.sys
> file
> > > screw anything up when I boot to Windows? That
> is,
> > > assuming the config.sys settings I enter are
> valid
> > > to
> > > begin with (i.e., not faulty due to user error).
>
> I don't run any version of Xy in W98, and so can't
> add anything here.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Jordan
>
>


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