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Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Feb 12, 2000 4:56 am Subject: "not enough memory to start SignWriter" | |
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SignWriting List February 11, 2000 QUESTION: I installed SignWriter properly, and I have several gigabytes of hard disk space, but when I try to start SignWriter, I receive this message: "not enough memory to open SignWriter" How could I not have enough memory? ANSWER: You have plenty of hard drive space. That is not the problem. The problem lies with "accessing the internal memory". SignWriter is an old program that it is based on the IBM's original 640K memory model. Of that 640K, SW uses most of it, so if your DOS system is set up in a way to load extra software into the low 640K memory, SW will not have enough memory to start. It doesn't matter how many megabytes of extra memory you have, because SW can't access it. The solution (if there is one) is to make sure that the low 640K of IBM memory is free and clear, containing nothing but DOS and SW. Sometimes networking software uses the low memory, and when that happens, you cannot run SignWriter on that machine...SignWriter was made for a less complicated world ;-) Val ;-) ------------------------------------ Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archive https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l/ Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA |
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