Re: Overflow file configuration?

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

WooF wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Leslie Bialler wrote:
>
> > Russ W. Urquhart wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to load a large file and keep gettinga
> > > "Disk is full writing to overflow file--free up space on drive C:" message.
> > >
> > > I have more than enought free space on the drive, do i need to set some
> > > parameter? I'm using Xy4 under a Dos window in NT 3.51. The file is only 13Mb
> > > and i have more than 70Mb free!
> >
> > Vraiment? In Xy4???!!!! I used to see that all the time in 3+ but never
> > in 4. What it means is that the file (and it must be an amazingly large
> > one at that)
> > is too large to fit into the temporary file that XyWrite creates on the
> > fly. If you slice it and dice it you should be OK. You can also fiddle
> > with your EMS parameters in your config.sys. I think you have to set EMS
> > equal to something on the order of 2048 or something of that sort.
> > Hopefully the Minister of Education will jump in here and set you right
> > on this. But until the good Sir Robert Holmgren posts, I suspect slicing
> > and dicing is the best way to go.
>
> In 3.57, you can specify where the overflow file goes. For that
> and other reasons, I set up a Ram "drive" (in my case, D:) in the
> config sys, and then specity that's where the overflow goes.
>
> George Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx

Yup. And you can do that in version 4, too. But if the files get beyond
a certain size, apparently 4.2 mg, according to Timothy, then you're
stuck, apparently.

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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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