(LaTeX+PiCTeX) ! No room for a new \dimen . (Help)

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From: Ian Green
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 21:55

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When trying to use PiCTeX I get:

(/home/sin1/img/lib/tex/inputs/prepictex.tex)
(/home/sin1/img/lib/tex/inputs/pictex.tex
! No room for a new \dimen .
\ch@ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3}
                                                  \fi
\alloc@ ...\advance \count 1#1by\@ne \ch@ck #1#4#2
                                                  \allocationnumber =\count ...
l.621 \newdimen\!zpt
                                      %.AWBX.DVEULGP.YQ.ST
?


I see from the log file that \!zpt would be \dimen235.   Two
questions: (1) I thought that upto \dimen254 was ok, and (2) how can I
avoid this limitation?  (Isn't PiCTeX rather greedy in its use of
\dimen's? :-)

Thanks for any help ---

Ian Green                                            img@ai.ed.ac.uk
Mathematical Reasoning Group                    
Department of AI, University of Edinburgh            +44 31 650 2721

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