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Article #7000Re: ZIP files over 640k
From: Thomas Brown [901015]
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 03:51
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 03:51
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I have created ZIP files which are 4MB in size on a 640K system with no trouble; PKZip does not hold the whole thing in memory. PKZip needs a small amount of scratch work memory and enough memory to load the program in DOS (or you will get the "Insufficient memory to load program" message). If you get that message before the PKZip signon message, you probably have too many bulky TSRs loaded which are eating up your conventional DOS memory. If you *do* get the signon message and then a memory error, then you have just enough free conventional memory to run PKZip, but not enough for the scratch area. In either case, check your TSR usage. BTW, I have worked with large ZIPs with PKZip v1.01 through 1.1 with no difficulty. -Tom --=-- Thomas Brown, KA2UGQ BITNET: twb0@lehigh.bitnet Lehigh University UC Box 855 ARPA: tbrown@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU Bethlehem, PA 18015 UUCP: ..!uunet!twb0@lehigh.bitnet (215) 758-0093 AX.25: ka2ugq@ka2ugq.nj.usa.na 'You can't have everything...where would you put it?' -S.W.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!lehi3b15!tbrown From: tbrown@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Thomas Brown [901015]) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: ZIP files over 640k Summary: no problem Message-ID: <1353@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> Date: 22 Jan 91 03:51:24 GMT References: <1991Jan2.182749.18111@eng.umd.edu> <B6iDV3w163w@cybrspc> <10799@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: tbrown@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Thomas Brown [901015]) Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Lines: 22