Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 03:56:33 07/30/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 18:56:59, Komputer Korner wrote: >On July 29, 1998 at 17:28:22, Tim OLena wrote: > >>Tim OLena said: >> >>>I recently bought a Windows95 machine, and had Socrates working just fine. Now, >>>the machine seems to have insufficient memory and Socrates won't run. I can run >>>"psoc.exe", but it soon crashes. >>> >>>Does anyone know how to solve this? any similar experiences? >>> >>>-TO' >> >>Fernando replied: >> >>Hi: >>I ha run Socrates 3,0 many times in W95 withouth problem, BUT from a DOS >>windows. Did you do the same or not? Besides, if you have a not too big Ram and >>and many resident or multitasking programs, that can happens >>Fernando >> >>Tim OLena answers: >> >>There's 64 Meg in the doggone thing! However, when I check from the DOS prompt, >>I'm told that the largest executable program size is 520k. SOC.EXE is around 50k >>and PSOC.EXE is around 480K. You can bypass SOC.EXE and run PSOC.EXE directly. >>But, if and when that works, it doesn't last long... > >You could always create a system disk and boot up from that into DOS. You should >get up to 620 K free RAM after that. Your best bet is to choose the restart in >DOS mode in WIN 95. That will give you 556K. >-- >Komputer Korner Hi Aditionally to all that, maybe you should edit your Dos windows. Somtime there too large buffers, or unnecesary programs and drives. Also you can edit the use of DOS by Soc in the property dialog. fernando
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