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From: Richard Joltes
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:06

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A friend is having trouble using MS Works on his (ick) IBM PS1 386sx system and
has asked me to help out.  The first thing I found was that he only had 1MB of
RAM, but a quick upgrade fixed that.  Now I've discovered that he's running DOS
4.00, which is probably his biggest problem.

The actual problem is an "out of memory" error when loading the second of two
large Works spreadsheets.  My first thought is to install DOS 5.0 and use high
memory for DOS and whatever else can be shoved up there, but was also consider-
ing whether a newer version of Works (he has 2.00a or something like that) may
be out that will allow itself to be loaded into high memory.  Any opinions or
additional options out there that I'm missing?  Any input appreciated.

Thanks,

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Dick Joltes						joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."

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