Memory problems in Clipper 5.x Unrec. error 5305

[jon.finanger]

Anyone that can tell what causes a Clipper program to interrupt with a display
of garbage on the screen and sometime ends with "Unrecoverable
error 5305 Conventional memory exhausted" or "Unrecoverable error 24 Write
error". This happens on some computers but not our developers computer.
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[Jovan Bulajic]

jon.finanger <mg3...@mbox200.swipnet.se> wrote:

> Anyone that can tell what causes a Clipper program to interrupt with a
display
> of garbage on the screen and sometime ends with "Unrecoverable
> error 5305 Conventional memory exhausted" or "Unrecoverable error 24
Write
> error". This happens on some computers but not our developers computer.

Than means that either disk is full (24 Write error) or there is not enough
free conventional memory to run the program (if error is 5306 Conventional
memory exhausted, 5305 error code is VM Swap space exhausted). Check DOS
MEM /C command to see what's the amount of free RAM and either try to free
some RAM (by loading drivers in upper memory) or to optimize overlays for
less memory consuption of your Clipper program. Also, possible problem
might be assigment of temporary directory - check if there is enough space
in SET TEMP directory. If program runs on network and SET TEMP points to
network directory (which is not recomemded if computer has a local hard
disc), check if user has limited disk quota.
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