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From: huangch@eecs.nwu.edu (Chih-Hao Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problem with AutoCAD v. 2.17b
Message-ID: <3580013@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 89 14:54:04 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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In / usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) /  8:36 pm  Apr 20, 1989 /
>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
> 
> 
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ACAD creates invisible files for temporary use.
These files would not be reported by "dir".
When ACAD terminates *normally*, it is responsible for those files
(either remove or rename, or whatever).
However, if ACAD terminates *abnormally* ( power failure, or quit-by-
turning-off-the-power, etc.) these files would remain in-accessible.

To deal with them, use some disk management utilities, like Norton, to
identify and remove those files.

Chih-Hao Huang		EECS Dept. at Northwestern University, IL
huangch@eecs.nwu.edu