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From: sekoppenhoef@rose.waterloo.edu (Shawn E. Koppenhoefer)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Help with DVIEPS (Again, Desperate!)
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Date: 4 Feb 90 20:47:53 GMT
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<20528@watdragon.waterloo.edu> sbnicol@rose.waterloo.edu (Scott Nicol) writes:
><90Feb4.120923est.4589@neat.cs.toronto.edu> (Huaiqing Wang) writes:
>>Hi, everybody:
>>    Although I already got DOSTEX working, now I am having a hard
>>time with DVIEPS. It always give me a error message like this:
>>    "FATAL--loadchar(): Could not allocate xxxx words of raster space
>    I, too, get an error message like this on occasion.  It seems to be
>a feeble "out-of-memory" error message.  Instead of gracefully exitting,

I used to have exactly this problem... there is a new DVIEPS executable
on simtel... maybe that one doesn't have this problem.
I have a 24pin printer and when i used DVIPAN on the .dvi files it worked
without a problem whatsoever (dvipan is supposed to have been a modification
of dvieps i think). I'm not sure what happens if you send 24pin output
to a 9 pin printer but it's worth a try i guess. Also... when i was trying
to get dvieps working i cut down my environment size a *LOT* and played 
around with files= and buffers= in the config.sys file. Oh.. and don't
do font caching.... it uses memory! (you sound like you need all you can get
...don't we all though) Why are you using DOSTEX? I'm using SBTeX and it
works great! It's much newer (faster?? smaller??) than DOSTEX too! 
Anyway.. hope some of this helps



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