scooper@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephan Cooper ) (08/09/85)
I downloaded a public domain .EXE file last night on to my Tandy1000 (MS-DOS). The file is 70,000 bytes or so. the problem is that when I tried to run it, the computer responded with: "Program too big to fit in memory" This is absurd, because I have 640K, and even prior to the memory upgrade from 128K, I could run KERMIT, which was a .EXE file also, that was 80,000 bytes. What gives? I know the file downloaded correctly, there were no errors. Does anyone know (or could anyone speculate) what is occurring here? Does it have anything to do with the machine thinking it is an 8-bit machine, or what? Help? Thanks, Steve Cooper scooper@brl
Wax.OsbuSouth@XEROX.ARPA (08/12/85)
There used to be an old bug in the Pascal compiler which did not let you run programs on a machine with over 512k. There were fixes but IBM only released them to people who asked specifically for them. The cheap and dirty fix is A) switch off sufficient memory so you are below 512K or B) run a ramdisk to eat up the extra space so you are below 512K. Allan Wax Wax.ES@Xerox.ARPA Wax.osbuSouth@Xerox.ARPA
Brzozowski@his-phoenix-multics.arpa (08/13/85)
The problem could also be that the program length in the .EXE header has been munged to show a greater sized file than is actually there. Gary Brz... (Brzozowski.RPMtnd%pco at CISL)