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Article #7261Re: uncompressing
From: Stephen M. Smith
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 17:37
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 17:37
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david@kessner.denver.co.us (David D. Kessner) writes: >mico@brahms.udel.edu (Michael G Santos) writes: >>Help, everytime I try to execute these files I get the error >> >>>Program to big to fit in memory >> >>These are the culprits: >> PKUNZIP.EXE >> PKX35A35.EXE >> ZOO201.EXE >> ZOOX2EXE.EXE >> >Perhapse you should think about getting more RAM? Or remove some of your >TSR's? > >If CHKDSK reports less than 490K of available memory, then you ought clear out >your ram. After all (if memory serves), PKUNZIP will run in less than 350K >of ram! I have "unzipped" and "unarced" fairly large files (using pkunzip.exe and pkunpak.exe), and I have sometimes had problem with memory. The reason I point this out is that I'm doing this on an IBM XT (4.77MHz) with only 320k RAM (327,680 is the exact amount). With Procomm running I only have 167k left! (I just checked.) SS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!news From: smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: uncompressing Message-ID: <1991Jan31.173750.15924@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 31 Jan 91 17:37:50 GMT References: <18300@brahms.udel.edu> <1991Jan31.032816.12640@kessner.denver.co.us> Sender: news@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu