Re: AW4 and Ram card problems

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <Jun.6.09.26.38.1994.4766@er4.rutgers.edu>,
Kid <neiderma@er4.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
> >> Finally got my copy of AW4.02 from Quality Computers and yet again I have
> >> run into the evil dead end memory wall created by my SuperExpander E
> 
> I also have an AppleWorks and RAM problem.  Booting my IIGS into ProDOS 8,
> I have 3+ megs of free RAM.  However, if I try to load a TXT file that's
> say a meg in size (even 700k in size) I don't have enough RAM and AppleWorks
> 3 and 4 both choke on the file and I can't load it.

The problem isn't that you don't have enough RAM: the file contains
too many lines for the AppleWorks Word Processor.  The limit is 16250
lines in AppleWorks 3 and 4, which works out to around 700k for an
average text file.

The error message produced is something like "This file exceeds the
limits of AppleWorks on this machine", which is a little misleading -
it would exceed the limits on ANY machine.

If you'd run out of memory, it would have given you a different
message, but I can't remember what it says.


The number of lines can be difficult to calculate, since AppleWorks is
counting the lines in its internal representation, which defaults to a
maximum of 59 characters per screen line with the default 1 inch left
and right margins.

I managed to load a 16000 line file consisting of exactly 59
characters per line (about 960k, once you count the carriage returns).
I forget how much memory it used - about 1.5 megabytes, I think.

If the lines were 60 characters or longer, AppleWorks refused to load
it (each 60 character line produced a 59 character line and a 1
character line, so there were 32000 "lines" as far as AppleWorks was
concerned).
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand