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From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: WINDOWS ERRORS
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.051400.5466@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 30 Jan 91 05:14:00 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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I've run into a mysterious (to me) series of error messages from
WIN3. I'm running it on a 286 with 2 megs of RAM and a VGA card and
monitor, with SmartDrive
enabled and himem.sys and ansi.sys installed. The only TSR is PC Tools
Deluxe's "MIRROR" program, which takes only a few K. This setup has been
working just fine for weeks, running both Windows and non-Windows
applications.
Tonight, though, while working in Corel Draw 1.21, I suddenly got a
message box proclaiming a "UNRECOVERABLE APPLICATION ERROR"; Corel Draw
was then aborted, putting me back in Program Manager (and costing me my
work-in-progress). This happened _twice_ in an hour.
In between those two events, I also got a message box telling me I was
"Out of memory", with the second line of the box reading "#M5202"
(without the quotes). This box appeared, I clicked on "Okay" to
acknowledge it, it appeared again, I clicked Okay again, and then it
went away and everything was cool. Corel Draw didn't abort, and I didn't
lose the file (until the other error came back, which didn't seem
related to this one).
The thing is, nothing has changed in my system in the past few weeks
that could have caused this to suddenly happen - I haven't added any
TSRs, changed my config.sys, etc. Also, I could find no mention of
either of these two messages in the WIN3 manual (there's a shocker,
eh?).
I have almost 10 megabytes of space on my hard drive, so it couldn't
have to with the swap files, either, I don't think.
So, what the hey? What's making these things start happening, all of a
sudden? So far, they've only occured in Corel Draw, which is the only
Windows application getting heavy use on this machine.

Thanx in advance for any and all advice....
PAUL BOTTS
prb@chinet.chi.il.us