[comp.text] TeX Capacity?

anderson@cme-durer.ARPA (Bill Anderson) (01/24/88)

I got the following error message when running TeX with two pictex
figures on one page:

TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=62701}

or at least something like that.  I am running TeX version 2.1 for
Berkeley Unix on my Sun3.  The question is how does one increase 
TeX's capacity?  Just increase the size of mem_max?
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grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu (01/27/88)

I'm not certain about the original TeX, but Common TeX is set up for this
right now. You just specify -DBIG or -DBIGG on the compile lines. I've got
a modified tex.h which allows me to define -BIGGG since I use PicTeX a lot.

Your dumped image becomes larger, and it's getting to the point where
dumping TeX doesn't make much sense anymore.