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> Hi, I was trying to load a gif file into ms-dos editor tomake some changes,
> and it loaded it up to 4609 lines and just said out of memory.
> I'm using windows.
> The file is 586000bytes big.
> I tried to take windows off the memory resident programs I decreased the number
> of buffers in config.sys, still not enough:I have 4MB of memory, and I'm using
> a 386DX 40 Mhz:what can I do?
> please reply by mail:
> ba@caslon.cs.arizona.edu(if replying before dec. 17)
> ece_0275@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu(if replying after dec 17)
> Thank you in advance
> MOUSSA>

DOS's EDITor loads itself and QBasic into conventional memory before loading
your text file, which leaves little room left over for anything else, 
especially a file that is almost 575kB.  Since you have 4MB of memory, make
sure that you are using HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE (or some extended memory 
managers) so that you can actually use it; as you probably are aware, most
DOS programs don't directly access extended memory; they place calls to the
extended memory manager(s) for memory allocation, but DOS's EDIT is *not* one
of those programs.  It uses only conventional memory (to my knowledge), so
you will have to use another text editor that will allow you to load the
whole GIF into memory.  WP5.1 will allow you to do this with its Text In/Out
feature.  In WordPerfect, press CTRL-F5, select DOS Text (1), then select
Retrieve and type filename.gif.  To save back as DOS text, press ^F5 again
and select DOS Text, then select Save.

I believe any of the newer Norton editors will also use extended memory
for loading text files.

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