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From: sandman@hall.cray.com (Dominick M. Galang)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Memory Exhausted error (18.52)
Keywords: File too big for its britches
Message-ID: <2416@hall.cray.com>
Date: 8 May 89 21:06:43 GMT
Reply-To: sandman@hyacinthus.UUCP (Dominick M. Galang)
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GNU Emacs 18.52.14 of Tue Dec 20 1988 on hyacinthus (berkeley-unix)

-rw-r-----  1 sandman   4293301 May  8 07:46 Mail/filename

	I'm running on a Sun 3/50 with 4MB of main memory.  It seems I've
managed to walk myself into the trap of having a file too big to edit.  I
thought a file was only loaded into memory in parts.  Now I'm getting a "memory
exhausted" error and the only option left to me is '^X^C' to quit out of emacs.
Can someone offer me some help or a little reasoning as to why this is
happening?  I wouldn't even mind it if emacs told me ahead of time that it
couldn't work on the file rather than just freezing up until I quit out of it.
Thanks in advance.


--Sandman

Dominick M. Galang              Cray Research                Sun Resource Group
Telephone: 612 452-6650  Paper: 1345 Northland Drive  Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Virtual: (via Arpa): sandman@hall.cray.com     (via UUCP): uunet\!cray\!sandman


-- 
      "Maybe it has powers I have yet to understand." --Superboy
Dominick M. Galang              Cray Research               Sun Resources Group
Telephone: 612 452-6650  Paper: 1345 Northland Drive  Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Virtual: (via Arpa): sandman@cray.com          (via UUCP): uunet\!cray\!sandman