Out Of Far Memory Error In Dos
we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. Solved: working in the dos editor Discussion in 'DOS/Other' started by draffe, Jul 16, 2008. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Advertisement draffe Thread Starter Joined: Jul 16, 2008 Messages: 2 I'm an old dos user (in more ways than one) but I can't figure something out. I'm editing an ascii dat file into which I have to add a header and a footer. The header must begin the first line of data -- not a new line. If I have insert on (using the keyboard button), when I type, the inserted info writes over what is there. With the insert button off, the keyboard dings and won't let me type at all. Now, why do this in the dos editor? The header (and the footer as well) include ridiculously long filler fields (282 bytes long) and the dos editor is the only thing I know that can tell me what column position I'm in. Otherwise, I have to resort to counting spacebar clicks and I usually end up being wrong. Other solutions welcome as well. Thanks all. draffe, Jul 16, 2008 #1 TheOutcaste Joined: Aug 7, 2007 Messages: 9,028 Welcome to TSG! Don't know what's up with your DOS editor. Insert and Overstrike both work just fine for me, running edit in a DOS window on XP Pro. Tested with 400-500 character lines in a 5325 KB file. Started getting Out of far memory errors with larger files, so if the file was too big I would expect an error, not just beeps. You might want to check out one of these free notepad replacements. Both will show line and column position, and both have many useful features including regular expression (RegExp) search and replace. Either one will save you from counting spacebar clicks Notetab Notepad++ HTH Jerry TheOutcaste, Jul 18, 2008 #2 draffe Thread Starter Joined: Jul 16, 2008 Messages: 2 Thank you so much. I concur this should easily work --perhaps it's a keyboard issue. Will try the resources you suggested. draffe, Jul 18, 2008 #3 This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies. Please start a New Thread if you're having a similar issue.View our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Show Ignored Content As Seen On Welcome to Tech Support Guy
? Ask a question, help others, and get answers from the community Discussions Start a thread and discuss today's topics with top experts Blogs Read the latest tech blogs written by experienced community members Error: Out of far memory kabi6675 15 pts. Tags: Thanks! We'll email youwhen relevant content isadded and updated. Following Follow DOS Thanks! We'll email youwhen relevant content isadded and updated. Following Follow FoxPro When I run a 'RUN' command within FoxPro 2.6 command window to edit a MS-DOS text file, it generates error message 'Out of far memory'. How can I rectify it. I am using foxpro 2.6 DOS on Windows 7. Asked: June 10, 20165:15 PM Last updated: June 14, https://forums.techguy.org/threads/solved-working-in-the-dos-editor.731192/ 20165:32 AM Related Questions foxpro 2.6 on windows 98 foxpro for dos FoxPro 2.6 for DOS FoxPro 2.6 Password recovery Visual Foxpro 9 Software use on Network Answer Wiki Thanks. We'll let you know when a new response is added. Please enter an answer. Send me notifications when members answer or reply to this question. Register Hereor login if you are already a member E-mail User Name Password Forgot Password? By submitting you agree http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/error-out-of-far-memory/ to receive email from TechTarget and its partners. If you reside outside of the United States, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. Privacy Answer Answer Processing your response... Discuss This Question: 1  Reply There was an error processing your information. Please try again later. Thanks. We'll let you know when a new response is added. Please enter a reply. Send me notifications when members answer or reply to this question. Register Hereor login if you are already a member E-mail User Name Password Forgot Password? By submitting you agree to receive email from TechTarget and its partners. If you reside outside of the United States, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. Privacy Reply Processing your reply... Sort by: OldestNewest Sorting replies... Subhendu Sen Jun 14, 2016 5:32 AM GMT Try to restrict memory available for FP 2.6 Or upgrade to FP 2.6a. Sometimes OS misconfiguration leads to that foxpro can not launch properly. 61,640 pointsBadges: report Next View All Replies ADD YOUR REPLY There was an error processing your information. Please try again later. Thanks. We'll let you know when a new response is added. Send me notifications when members answer or reply to this question. Register He
reply 9 posts • Page 1 of 1 Reply with quote Tecplot out-of-memory error by ddan017 » 2011-2-23 @ 13:02 Hi guys, I'm trying to help my dad run a DOS program called TECPLOT that used to work on his old (busted) laptop, which we can't http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=27543 get working on anything else. The program is used to graphically display data from a file. Using dosbox, we're able to start the program, but once we try to load up one of his files, it runs out of memory. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160418-00/?p=93307 We've tried various combinations of xms, ems, etc and different cpu types and memory sizes, but no luck so far. One question: is the 64MB limit a DOS or just a dosbox limit? Steps to reproduce: Download and unzip: out of http://www.danilatos.com/dosbox_c.tar.gz (Note: it's 50MB unzipped. Most of the contents aren't needed, but I didn't want to risk stuffing up the setup). The "dosbox.conf" contains the current attempt, and an autoexec that will run the application (you might need to fiddle with it to make it actually mount the C: driver correctly though, depending on where you unzip it). The problem should appear as an error message saying "OUT OF WORKSPACE" If there's any more information I can provide to assist out of far in diagnosing the issue, please let me know! Really appreciate any help! ddan017 Newbie Posts: 2Joined: 2011-2-23 @ 12:41 Top Reply with quote Re: Tecplot out-of-memory error by DosFreak » 2011-2-23 @ 13:12 IIRC before Windows 9x HIMEM.SYS limited memory to 64mb. Since DOSBox is for DOS games and that's all they ever needed then that's all that DOSBox supports. If you need more than 64mb in DOSBox you'll need to modify the code to do so but you are likely better off using a VM like Virtual PC or Vmware. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/116256 Game Acronym ListDosBox CVS BuildsDosBox Feature Request ThreadDosBox FAQPC Game Compatibility List"People like coldplay and voted for the nazis, you can't trust people." DosFreak l33t++ Posts: 9121Joined: 2002-6-30 @ 16:35Location: Your Head Top Reply with quote Re: Tecplot out-of-memory error by ddan017 » 2011-2-23 @ 23:07 Thanks for the response. I can write code, so I could potentially modify dosbox as you mention. Before I start looking at the code, does anyone have any idea if this would be a simple change, or require fundamental alterations requiring deep knowledge of the codebase? I'd be less confident doing the latter... ddan017 Newbie Posts: 2Joined: 2011-2-23 @ 12:41 Top Reply with quote Re: Tecplot out-of-memory error by ripsaw8080 » 2011-2-24 @ 03:19 Use these DOSBox settings: memsize=16 xms=false ems=false Then, before running the app, enter this command: SET DOS16M=:16M Setting the environment variable tells th
Chen - MSFTApril 18, 201632 Share 0 0 Piggybacking on Roger Lipscombe's story of the MS-DOS extender that didn't work if you have 64MB of RAM: There was a popular MS-DOS game from 1994 that didn't run in Windows 95. After some investigation, the conclusion was that the game didn't work if your computer had more than 16MB of memory (physical, if running under MS-DOS; virtual, if running under Windows). The 16MB limit comes into play because the game was written for the 80286 processor, and that processor supports a maximum of 16MB of RAM. I guess that when the game found more than 16MB of memory, it didn't know what to do with the extra memory; maybe it overflowed a buffer, or a calculation overflowed. Whatever. Doesn't matter. We fixed the problem by creating a custom configuration for that game that said, "Never give this program more than 16MB of memory." This case was interesting because the custom configuration means that the program runs better under Windows 95 than it does under raw MS-DOS: Under raw MS-DOS, it would have crashed! Tags History Comments (32) Mc says: April 18, 2016 at 7:41 am Not quite too much memory, but too much speed: I remember I had a MSDOS game which I had to stop playing because it ran too fast on my "modern" PC. Switching off the turbo button almost made it playable (went from 32Mhz to 8 Mhz I think) but it was still too fast to be fair. Can't remember the name, but it was a Digdug clone in brown, green and red CGA mode. I tried some TSR programs that tried to slow the processor down in the background, but it was then too jerky to be playable. Mc says: April 18, 2016 at 7:43 am Ah! It was called Digger by Windmill Software Rob Yull says: April 18, 2016 at 8:43 am I remember trying to play the original Mechwarrior on a modern (and by modern I meant first gen Pentium) machine. It pretty much took all the processor power it could and ran as fast as it could. In combat, the enemy would run up destroy you and run away before you ever even had a chance to react. BZ says: April 18, 20