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Re: MetaFont

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From: John C Gallant
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 23:16
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krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au () writes:

>  I am having a problem with MF for the Amiga. I cannot seem to get it
>to run! I have 1Mb RAM and I have memtop and memmax set to 100000 and
>it says, when run, that "Insufficient Memory (5)!"

>  Can someone please elaborate?

I haven't run MF on the Amiga but I have run TeX (PasTeX that is). You
probably need to REDUCE memtop and memmax. If I remember rightly,
memtop/memmax specify number of long words ie 100000 means it is trying
to grab a 400k block of memory.


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