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From: agray@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Andy Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Uniterm metafiles
Summary: Try increasing the system buffer
Keywords: uniterm vdi metafiles
Message-ID: <4250@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 90 18:40:54 GMT
References: <9002040802.AA11879@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <286@blnosz.UUCP>
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <286@blnosz.UUCP> ballier@blnosz.UUCP (Ralph Ballier) writes:
>In article <9002040802.AA11879@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WACKER@CERNVM.BITNET (Klaus Wacker) writes:
>>[...]
>>When I try to print directly from Uniterm by selecting 'Printer' rather
>>than 'Metafile' after hitting Alt-F3, I get an alert box telling me
>>'Unable to open VDI device'.
>>[...]
>I have the same problem like you ('Unable...'). I have written to Simon Poole,
>but I have not got an answer. 

Try increasing the size of your system buffer.  Uniterm needs a lot of
system memory to create those metafiles.  I had a lot of problems until I
increased mine to 200K or so.

						-- Andy

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