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RE: [Junk released by Allow List] 'Out of memory'



There is also a DOS limit of 512 to the maximum number of files in a root
directory.

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lynn Brenner
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:53 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Junk released by Allow List] 'Out of memory'

Thank you both. I moved a bunch of files out of the directory and the
problem disappeared. I'll bear it in mind in the future.
Lynn

priscamg@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I think with Xy3 (which I use), too many files in a directory will
>> cause this.
>
> Don't use Xy 3, but it sounds likely. Recall that under DOS there was
> a limit to how many files could be in a directory. I've run into a
> similar problem in dBase5 for DOS.