jye@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Chen, Cornell University) (10/02/90)
Here's a very, very, very, very unusual problem: I installed via the installer System Software (SE/30 installation) 6.05 onto a FDHD floppy. I then copied Word 4.00B directly from the master disk onto this floppy. Reboot the machine off the floppy. Launch Word. Under "Character," I changed the font size to 127. I then proceeded to type a few characters followed by a return. Word displays: "Serious Problem: This document is too large for word to handle" Note that this system has no Inits, cdevs, bells or whistles other than plain vanilla System Software 6.05 (SE/30 Installation). Quite obviously, it makes no sense for 5 characters to generate a "document too large to handle" error. I took this same disk and performed the same test on a friend's SE. No problems. The question: what's wrong with my SE/30? I recently had more memory installed. Could it be that the SIMMS are bad? I don't recall ever having such an error before. Any comments would be appreciated. (A fix would be even MORE appreciated :) ) Jeff Chen JYE@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU or JYE@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/02/90)
One possibility is that the bitmap for the huge font is eating up a lot of memory. I remember hearing that this can be a problem. What happens is that a smaller font size is scaled up to meet the new point size and so takes up proportionately more space in memory. It shouldn't fill up THAT much, though, unless maybe it causes heavy fragment- ation of memory (blocks scattered everywhere, with little space between each, although overall free memory is still sizable). Bill Gulstad
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) (10/03/90)
My guess is there is no room on the floppy for Word's temporary files. Try a hard disk (or at least a pair of floppy drives). Russell Owen owen@raven.phys.washington.edu Astronomy Dept. FM-20 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195