🚀 go-pugleaf

In <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu> cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) writes:

>Help!
>I have been having a lot of memory problems lately.
>Having a mere 40 meg HD, I have recently done my best to 
>transfer everything I own to Floppies that does not need 
>to be on the drive, and zippng some files that I dont use daily.
>This included taking some of my window apps and even storing them on 
>floppies.  BUT:

I'm not sure what you think the connection is between your hard drive
and your memory.  Are you using Windows VM (permanent swap file)?

>It didnt work!  Believe it or not, It still says I have only 385K 
>of memory available, in both windows and dos.
>it tells me 41.8M total, 385 available.
>yet, in doing a directory by directory manual
>addition of used memory, I only come up with 27.3M in use!!!
>What the hell happened to my other 14 megs?
>Any help is greatly appreciated.

Fragmented to the point where Windows can't put a swap file on it?
I'm not sure what you think your problem really is, but you shouldn't
really expect to automagically see your hard drive reported as MEMORY.
The memory is on some of the little black rectangular things inside
the big box.  ;-)

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.