TLINK Out of Memory Error
Tony Castrogiovanni
Here's a problem that I just cannot seem to come up with a viable answer
to.
I'm trying to assemble and link a simple program from a Windows 95 DOS
window....
tasm runs fine but when I attempt to go ahead and link my program with
tlink I get the
dreaded Fatal: Out Of Memory Error....
My first question is what type of memory is it complaining that their is
a lack of????
I assumed the program meant conventional memory, Mem below 1 mb because
that is
the only type of memory a program like tlink can run from so I did a
little playing around with my config.sys file and I was able to push up
my free conventional memory under Windows 95 from 584K to 612K....
Sounds, like I solved the problem but here's where it gets interesting
;-)...
When I try to link my program again from a DOS window I get the same
Fatal Memory error message...
The funny thing is that even when I just boot my system up in MS-DOS
alone, I use to have only about 590K of conventional memory for tlink to
run from and it ran fine. However, if I try to run it from a DOS-Promt
window, which we all know is far more productive and convenient than
having to shut everything down and exiting out to DOS just to link a
program I get tlinker's out of memory error.
What am I missing here and what exactly could be the cause of my
problem????
Any help would be greatly apprecited...
A disgruntled designer,
Anthony Castrogiovanni
tca...@mindspring.com
Wayne A. King
>I'm trying to assemble and link a simple program from a Windows 95 DOS
>window....
>tasm runs fine but when I attempt to go ahead and link my program with
>tlink I get the dreaded Fatal: Out Of Memory Error....
With Windows Explorer look for conagent.pif, conagent.exe, _default.pif.
For any of these you find, click the right mouse button to get the speed menu,
click on Properties, then Memory, and make all settings "auto".
Something to watch out for:
The 16-bit tools can only handle short directory/filenames (8.3 format).
If you have long directory names, shorten them to the 8.3 format.
TLINK is a 16-bit program.
--
Wayne A. King
(ba...@torfree.net, wayne...@ablelink.org,
wak...@idirect.com, Wayne_...@compuserve.com)
Tony Castrogiovanni
>> Wayne A. King wrote:
> >> With Windows Explorer look for conagent.pif, conagent.exe, _default.pif.
> >> For any of these you find, click the right mouse button to get the speed
> menu,
> >> click on Properties, then Memory, and make all settings "auto".
>
> Wayne,
I searched for the files you suggested and was able to find conagent.exe.
However,the settings you suggested to change under Memory were already set to
"auto."
Do you have any other ideas as to how I can start getting the 16-bit tlink
tool to work
under Windows 95????? Has anyone else tried using the tool from Windows and
experirienced the same error???
Cheers,
Tony Castrogiovanni
tca...@mindspring.com
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D. Speir
I searched for the files you suggested and was able to find
conagent.exe. However,the settings you suggested to
change under Memory were already set to"auto."
experirienced the same error???
I've had similair err msg's while compiling from "inside"
the borland C v.5.0 IDE for a win16 prog. But it worked
OK from a cmdline console makefile. I don't really have
a clue what is causing your problem.
Martin Fensome
Perhaps delete/uninstall tasm and reinstall it?
Good Luck
Martin
Tony Castrogiovanni <tca...@mindspring.com> wrote in article
<3515490F...@mindspring.com>...
> >> Wayne A. King wrote:
>
> > >> With Windows Explorer look for conagent.pif, conagent.exe,
_default.pif.
> > >> For any of these you find, click the right mouse button to get the
speed
> > menu,
> > >> click on Properties, then Memory, and make all settings "auto".
> >
> > Wayne,
>
> I searched for the files you suggested and was able to find
conagent.exe.
> However,the settings you suggested to change under Memory were already
set to
> "auto."
>
> Do you have any other ideas as to how I can start getting the 16-bit
tlink
> tool to work
> under Windows 95????? Has anyone else tried using the tool from Windows
and
> experirienced the same error???
>
> Cheers,
> Tony Castrogiovanni
> tca...@mindspring.com
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