Hello all--  greetings from South africa

I am writing some addins to some old dos programs that i USE in
my small factory.

I am using a pentium 4 and windows XP

I am getting a message "insufficient memory" .

There is however plenty of memory
 
Can anyone suggest a work around??

REGARDS ntambomvuAt what point do you get the error message? 

Are these batch files?

What kind of code are you writing?You could be running out of the 640k base memory... Are there any TSR's or other services for these dos programs that are eating up too much base memory.

run MEM at dos prompt and report back the figures shown

You can have tons of extended Ram like 2GB, but if you pull down your base memory too low then you can run into this situation with some dos programs. Newer programs use Windows OS with extended Ram, but if the programs were intended to address base memory addresses then you could be in this situation if not addressing extended memory.

Is this a Windows Alert or a DOS Program Alert to the memory insufficient. Also have these programs run before without problems or is this a new configuration?

Code: [Select]Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\dlembke>mem


    655360 bytes total conventional memory
    655360 bytes available to MS-DOS
    599072 largest executable program size

   1048576 bytes total contiguous extended memory
         0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
    941056 bytes available XMS memory
           MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

C:\DOCUME~1\dlembke>
You should see something like this and "Largest Executable Program Size" is the key here...should be in the 580k ->640k range otherwise DOS programs may complain. The more the better and if less than 590k I would be looking for a way to get back 10k if say 580k

***Also run a virus scan to make sure system is clean...if an old floppy had a TSR virus on it it could also cause this low base memory issue.Many many thanks for the reply-- i thought that being a dos question that i would
be battling for an answer - but i was wrong- youir input is appreciated

> Are there any TSR's or other services

I really dont know - ?? how can i find out?

Running mem give the same answers as your screen shot except that
in my case the 

599072 largest executable program size
is 633,???  ( not quite 640 but more that your 599 >


>Is this a Windows Alert or a DOS Program Alert to the memory insufficient.

I am programming in dbase 4 ver 2 for dos and the error is being reported
by the dos program ( not by windows)



Also have these programs run before without problems or is this a new configuration?

No This is new code ---(while i  have many other programs in the same language- this is the first time I have seen this message) the message appears about half way through a data capture screen that uses many  say get statements and the complete entry page is 4 screens long- so I thinh that the page may be heavy for dos


***Also run a virus scan to make sure system is clean

I was AVG regularly and no problems reported?

Answers to further questions in you mail are

>batch files ---- not these are .prg files


> I am running dbase 4 ver 2 and the code is very basic data-capturing
stuff.
Well If you have 633k base then TSRs are not a concern. TSRs generally eat up base memory, but you have plenty.

You may be grabbing too much info and exceeding the buffer --> Quote

message appears about half way through a data capture screen that uses many  say get statements and the complete entry page is 4 screens long- so I thinh that the page may be heavy for dos