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FlWriter version 1.1 available (Announce)

posted by Doug , 08.05.2012, 03:48

> If you would start
> FlWriter with redir.exe from the DJGPP package you could redirect error
> messages to a file and that should give a clue why the PDF conversion does
> not work.

Ok, i'm using 4DOS, so i can redirect standard error as well as standard output. Ran FlWriter with this command:

flwriter >& err

Loaded the test file, tried to create a PDF, failed same as previous note. Contents of the "ERR" file:

DOS/32A fatal (4003): not enough extended memory to load application exec "gs386.exe"
Deleting d:\flwriter\outtmp.ps
     1 file deleted         163,840 bytes freed

Surprising... because the system has 512mb RAM! The MEM command in DOS displays:

Memory Type        Total       Used       Free
----------------  --------   --------   --------
Conventional          638K        15K       623K
Upper                  96K        54K        42K
Reserved                0K         0K         0K
Extended (XMS)    522,592K     1,805K   520,787K
----------------  --------   --------   --------
Total memory      523,326K     1,874K   521,452K

Total under 1 MB      734K        69K       665K

Largest executable program size       623K (638,096 bytes) 
Largest free upper memory block        38K  (39,328 bytes) 
Available space in High Memory Area    11K  (10,800 bytes) 
MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.

I'm enabling XMS and UMBs with Uwe Sieber's UMBPCI and Jack Ellis's XMgr.

Any clues?

- Doug B.

Complete thread:

• FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 13:32 (Announce)
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 15:36
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 16:30
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 17:51
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Wengier, 05.05.2012, 22:40
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 06.05.2012, 20:34
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 07.05.2012, 18:20
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 08.05.2012, 03:48
        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 08.05.2012, 05:44
          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 08.05.2012, 21:45
            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 06:51
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 09.05.2012, 07:53
                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 08:43
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 20:23
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 22:39
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 10.05.2012, 14:21
                      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 10.05.2012, 22:04
                        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 00:22
                          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 11.05.2012, 08:07
                            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 22:27
                              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - RayeR, 12.05.2012, 00:36
                                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 12.05.2012, 08:40
                                  • GhostScript 7.05 for DOS - Rugxulo, 13.05.2012, 01:44
                                    • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - georgpotthast, 13.05.2012, 10:00
                                      • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 22.05.2012, 01:07
                                        • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - RayeR, 23.05.2012, 00:51
                                          • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 23.05.2012, 05:39
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 10.05.2012, 18:02
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 08:29