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From: smk5@quads.uchicago.edu (stephen mortimer kramarsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Help! Something ate my diskspace!
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.204025.9521@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 91 20:40:25 GMT
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In article <1991Apr27.230530.26089@midway.uchicago.edu> I write:
>  I have a tiny little problem I was hoping you could help me with:  I
>tried to open a file in Edit which obviously was not designed to be so opened.
>After a great deal of disk activity during which the "## MB available on hard
>disk" in the upper left of my "File Viewer" dropped to NONE! from 21.5 MB, I
>managed to regain control.
>
>  [details deleted]
>
>  Please e-mail me any help you can [on what may have happened to my disk 
>  space].

Thanks to everyone who sent me help.  I found a 4 meg core file and pared down
my swapfile substantially (perhaps too substantially, but that's another post.)
I'm now back in the game thanks to all of you.

  Your servant,
        Steve Kramarsky.