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- From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
- Subject: Re: TeX with more than 65531 words of memory
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:38:37 GMT
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- In article <FLIMM.93Jan27104503@sun.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de> flimm@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de (Oliver Flimm) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >is it possible to make armatures work with more than its standard 65531
- >words of memory. Everytime I try to tex a large document armatures exits
- >after 20 pages with a message like "TeX capacity exeeded, sorry [main
- >memory size=65531]". And 20 pages (without pictures) aren't very much
- >on a A310 with 4MB RAM-Upgrage.
- >
- >BTW is there a newer version of TeX (3.0 or higher) available, either PD or
- >commercial.
-
- This sounds like strange behaviour. I'm no TeX expert, but I've often run
- quite large (>200 pages) documents through armatures TeX, with no trouble
- at all. If I remember rightly, the capacity limitation isn't so much to do
- with the size of the document, but is related to how many fonts TeX has to
- load and things like that.
-
- The sources are there for TeX, so if you know what you're doing it may be
- possible to recompile it with a larger memory size. But I suspect some
- other problem.
-
- TooLs GmbH sells a commercial port of TeX which is more recent than the
- armatures one. I don't know what version it is though.
-
- Graham.
-