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From: my@dtg.nsc.com (Michael Yip)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: what causes 'unrecoverable error'?
Summary: Tmp File, Memory
Keywords: error, file, disk space, memory
Message-ID: <640@dtg.nsc.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:14:05 GMT
References: <21616@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <14934@megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: my@dtg.UUCP (Michael Yip)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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In article (Tom Stephenson) writes:
>From article (Marc Brandis):
>> In article (Hokkun Pang) writes:
>
>>>are there any usual causes of the 'unrecoverable error'? I ecounter this thing
>>>so many times, what operation should I be cautious of?
>One thing that happens to many un-wary users is running out of DISK SPACE in
>the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP area. When the system is trying to print a file, the

Well, I think that you can get that error when WIN3 runs out of memory too.
I am not sure, but a few times I had a few excel woorking at the same time,
and everything worked fine but I exited all the programs and started them
again and I get the 'unrecoverable error' when I opened a few windows.

[I have a 386 w/ 4MRAM and a lot of disk space.]
[And I was using the standard mode then.       ]

-- Mike