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From: grwalter@watfun.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Problems with STEVIE (The text editor, not the Amiga ad kid)
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Date: 12 Nov 89 19:36:25 GMT
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>>From: doug@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (douglas.sulpy)
>I was working on a text file earlier, when Stevie suddenly bombed
>out with the message: "alloc () - not enough chip memory - should 
>never happen".

Try using the latest version (3.7a); the memory allocation routines were
re-written somewhat to make them more robust.

>Cute. The file in question was around 480 lines - not enough to
>eat up the 1 Meg in my stock 2000. I wasn't running anything
>else, although I HAD had the Bridgecard up earlier (which I
>closed down). Any ideas?

Something had badly fragged chip mem on you.

	fred
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