[net.micro.att] 640K "too little memory" Word Star error?

ksl@hou2e.UUCP (a hacker) (07/22/85)

HELP!!

When running the WordStar "WINSTALL" program, this is what happens:
	A>winstall
	too little memory
	A>

I have an AT&T PC 6300 with 640K, and have no idea why that happens.

hou2e!ksl

jeffm@mmintl.UUCP (Jeffrey Miller) (08/01/85)

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	You might try using debug or something similar to see if near the
beginning of winstall it is looking at the 2nd or 3rd byte of the program
segment prefix to find the top of memory.  A friend of mine had a similar
problem with masm 1.00 when he switched to a machine with 640k from one with
512k.  He found that masm was using a signed compare instead of unsigned to
check for available memory.  He changed the compare to unsigned and it works
fine.  Perhaps you have the same problem.

					Jeff

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