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Dear Leslie I have spoken to one of the wise people already and covered most of the obvious ground. My startup file does indeed define DR. I have also set up XY4 to use expanded memory. This has all been to no avail. Any other ideas? Paul On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:55:27 -0500, Leslie Bialler wrote: >Paul Breeze wrote: > >> I have found a persistent problem trying to run the Microlytics >> dictionary with XY4. (The problem is with the UK dictionary, not >>the >> US, though it may apply to other non-US dictionaries too.) Always, >> after a certain number of queries in a file the dictionary >>operation >> causes either XY4 to hang or a Windows error. The number of >>queries >> may vary from file to file - at the moment it is around 100 or so, >>but >> it has been as low as 20 in the past. Once I managed to obtain an >>XY >> error message which was as follows: >> >> Disk is full. Cannot create overflow file > >Wow! You got that error in XY4??!! Used to get that all the time in >old >3+--means the temp. overflow file or something ran out of space. >Never >had that happen in XY4 though. > >The Wise Persons can give you the technical explanation, and may >(nay, >probably will!) expound upon the old DOS expanded or extended or >expended or exhausted or exploded memory. Whatever. But until their >help >arrives, this may be of use: > >Does your startup.int file have a line like this? If not, create one. >You will, of course, first have to create the directory itself. It >need >not be called c:\xy4\temp. > >default dr=c:\xy4\temp? > > >-- >Leslie Bialler, Columbia University Press >lb136@xxxxxxxx >61 W. 62 St, NYC 10023 >212-459-0600 X7109 (phone) 212-459-3677 (fax) >> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup |