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From: gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus Problems
Message-ID: <5680@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 15:57:06 GMT
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From article <11994@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las):
> In article <5690@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> mregeste@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Regester) writes:
> }The problem we are having is that Procomm Plus will abort while loading
> }with the message "Error: cannot load .DIR file".  A call to Datastorm
> }said that this was caused by the system running out of environment
> }space.  On some PCs this was true and easily fixed with the shell
> }command in config.sys with the "/e" switch.  On others it has been a
> }little tougher.

I had a problem similar to this.  By increasing the "Files = " line in
my config.sys the problem went away.  Procomm uses quite a few files
that are open at the same time.  They recommend using file=20.


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