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Subject:Re: 'Houston, we have a problem' From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:52:32 -0800
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:20:02 BST, Ana Branson wrote:
>HELP !!
>
>I'm new to this list and 'just out of nappies' as far as the technical
>documentation scene goes but have enjoyed reading all the messages and merry
>banter ...
Hi Ana, welcome to the list!
>Our Documentation Team has hit a wee bit of a crisis, in that the number of
>text files we are compiling to produce on-line Help has increased
>dramatically in the last year and the Microsoft hcp.exe compiler we use
>(running on Windows 3.11) keeps on falling over in a very unfriendly and
>extremely frustrating fashion ..... we seem to have hit a size barrier,
>which (apparently) isn't meant to happen ?!
Falling over is NEVER "meant to happen" (yeah, right :)
>Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me as to the cause of this or
>suggest a means of getting around the problem, even on a temporary basis ?
I would tend to suspect, just offhand, limitations of Windows 3.x
memory handling being related, but without more specific information
(error messages and such) I can't tell you much else. "Falling over"
isn't a very technical term! :-)
Reply privately, as tech support is off-topic...
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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