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From: raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Bernd Raichle)
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Subject: Re: MetaFont
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Date: 27 Jun 91 08:42:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: jcg852@jcsneuro.uucp's message of 26 Jun 91 23:16:46 GMT

jcg852@jcsneuro.uucp (John C Gallant) writes:
> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au () writes:
> >  I am having a problem with MF for the Amiga. I cannot seem to get it
> >to run! I have 1Mb RAM and I have memtop and memmax set to 100000 and
> >it says, when run, that "Insufficient Memory (5)!"
> I haven't run MF on the Amiga but I have run TeX (PasTeX that is). You
> probably need to REDUCE memtop and memmax. If I remember rightly,
  ^^^^^^^^ you NEED to!
> memtop/memmax specify number of long words ie 100000 means it is trying
> to grab a 400k block of memory.

If you don't use a BigMF, you can't set memmax/memtop to 100000
...and for BigMF a`memoryword' is _two_ long words, i.e., it tries to
grap 800k out of 1MB only for the main mem!

Don't use a BigMF unless you have at least 1,5-2MB RAM.

-bernd