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- ID:SY Lotus and Symphony Notes
- Quarterdeck Technical Note
- by Stan Young
-
- STARTING WITH THE LOADER:
-
- If copy protection has been removed from your copy of Lotus 1-2-3
- version 2 or Symphony 1.1, or if your copy never had it, the
- default installation for Lotus or Symphony will not succeed in
- opening the Lotus window. There is a simple reason for this and
- a simple solution. Run "Change a Program" from the DESQview Open
- Window menu and select Lotus or Symphony as the program you want
- to change. When the configuration menu comes up, look at the
- line labled "Program." It will be listed as:
-
- C:\DV\LS-LOAD.COM
-
- and the "Parameters" line will be:
-
- 123.COM
-
- The problem here is that on a non-protected Lotus system, there
- is no 123.COM file, the file is called 123.EXE. What you need to
- do is tab down to the parameters line and leaving the rest of the
- line intact, change the "COM" to "EXE." Then the program will
- load normally.
-
- "Out of Memory" Messages:
-
- If you receive an "Out of Memory" message while loading a Lotus or
- Symphony spreadsheet or document, it is likely that Lotus or
- Symphony have run out of CONVENTIONAL memory. While these
- programs can use expanded (LIM) memory, they also tend to spread
- out in the conventional memory partition as well. If you get
- this message while running these programs in DESQview, run Change
- a Program and try increasing the "Memory Size in K" item by 20K
- or so until the spreadsheet loads. If you feel you have memory
- to spare, you can make things easy on yourself by leaving the
- "Memory Size in K" item as is and then hitting F1 for advanced
- options and set "Maximum Program Memory Size in K" to 640. While
- it is unlikely you will have 640K free for a partition,
- configured in this manner, DESQview will give Lotus as much
- conventional memory as it can find.
-
- Please note: You must close and reopen the Lotus or Symphony
- window before the memory change will take effect.
-
- Running Lotus with HAL:
-
- Lotus can be loaded with HAL in DESQview and still be used in the
- small window. The trick is to modify the command to start the
- program so the DESQview Lotus loader loads HAL instead.
- HAL then will load 123. Assuming the HAL files were in the 123
- subdirectory and the 123 subdirectory is listed in the Path to
- Data Files, you would make the "Program" line as follows:
-
- C:\DV\LS-LOAD.COM
-
- and the parameters line:
-
- HAL.EXE
-
- You will also have to increase the "Memory Size in K" figure by
- an extra 120K to accommodate the extra overhead of HAL.
-
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