Re: Overflow file configuration?

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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