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Subject: Problem with AutoCAD v. 2.17b
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Date: 21 Apr 89 01:36:10 GMT
Reply-To: cook@frith.UUCP (Greg Cook)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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I am having a little problem with ACAD and I hope someone can help me.
I am running ACAD v. 2.17b on an AT clone with 1 MEG RAM and a 40 MEG
hard disk.  It used to work ok but now, when I try to load a drawing, it
starts to draw on the screen and then stops and says it can't read the
hard disk.  I get the usual message "abort, retry, fail".  When I press
one of these I get a message:  "Fatal error, disk is full"

I still have over 20 MEG of space free on my HD.  I can't understand why
this isn't working.  I have used this ACAD before on this HD with no
problems.  I also have no problems running any other software.

I should probably say that I am using MS-DOS 4.01.  I don't recall if I
used ACAD after I formated my HD for the full 40 MEG or if I only ran it
when it was partitioned to 32 MEG.  I don't think this is the problem
but I have been wrong before.

Thanks for any help.  I am not very experienced with ACAD but would like
to learn it.

Greg Cook
cook@frith.egr.msu.edu        gcook@hours.cem.msu.edu