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Re: Customizing EPM 5.51

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From: KUMARADAS JOSEPH CARL
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:11
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In article <nicolson.64@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> nicolson@odie.ee.wits.ac.za (James Nicolson) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am using EPM v5.51 from software.watson.ibm.com. (Its seems like a really 
>good editor)
>
>When it comes to customizing it, I ran into a problem. Even without 
>including my own .e files (mystuff.e etc.), the translator (etpm) complains
>about the .ex file being bigger than the allowed 64k. Ie. all I am doing is:
>  etpm epm
>using the macro files as supplied in epmmac.zip.
>
>Am I missing something?
>
>Thanks,
>
>------------
>James Nicolson, Department of Electrical Engineering
>University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

You should add the WANT_EXTRA=1 (or something to that effect) to a mycnf.e 
file.  The .ex files are for some reason limited to 64k eac.  The WANT_EXTRA 
will put the rest on a second file which must also be created by compiling the
extra.e macro file.

Carl. 
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