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- At 01:51 PM 3/6/96, WILLIAM J. MILLER wrote:
- >Well, last night, I was playing with PhotoShop 3.0.x for the Mac. It
- >loaded fine, until it got to the point where it did memory checks. I
- >gave E/DOS about 9 megs of ram to play with, with large syszone, and
- >large stack. Tried many many settings. It work, but when it started
- >looking at the "hard disk" as a scratch drive, it said the disk is bad
- >and died. This in itself really is not important. However, if it works
- >like Illustrator, it is.
- >
- >Illustrator 5.5 runs, albeit slowly. The hard disk never stopped
- >spinning, the ligh was always flashing. No problem here, except that its
- >slow. Now, when I went into the paint styles dialog, and then into the
- >gradient dialog, it never repainted correctly, except, if I put a windows
- >on top, then dragged it off. I think this could be relatively easy to
- >fix, by just sending a repaint message, in the window 'activate' event.
- >
- >Other than that, (of the things I have tested), everything works beautifully.
- >
- >Bill
- >
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- Forgive me if I have made a false assumption, but it sounds like you gave
- EXECUTOR more memory than you had available to give. Your symptoms indicate
- that you were running illustrator in virtual memory. Virtual memory uses
- the hard drive as RAM. That could be why the hard drive never quit
- transferring data and would also explain the slow operational speed. Try
- EXECUTOR -INFO and set the -memory at or below what the return indicates
- that you have. This, of course, might be less than required to run the
- program you wish to run. You can generally clear some memory by not
- dedicating so much memory in other programs, like smartdrive.
-
- John
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