Re: Overflow file configuration?

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
>
> ** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:18:47 EST
>
> > 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.
>
> Nah. EMS is just for spelling and some overlays, e.g. in Ibid. This overflow
> file is disk-based. But it still has to be read in and out of memory, and it can
> only grow so large.

I yield gracefully to our esteemed Minister of Education. Thanks!


>
> > I think it's highly doubtful that we'll ever see a fix for this acknowledged
> > bug.
>
> Why is that a bug? It's just the limit. The maximum memory space Xy can handle.
> A known quantity & behavior. We take it or we leave it.
>

Quite so.

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> Robert Holmgren
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Leslie Bialler
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