Lotus Agenda under vDOS-- Out of Virtual Memory

[rthamper]

I'm running Lotus Agenda 2.0 under vDOS.  Everything works fine except when I print a large file.  Each printed page in Agenda requires 20K.  So I'm wondering how to increase the memory size for printing in vDOS so I don't get the "out of virtual memory" message?

Is this even possible?

--- Rich

[Jos]

I assume you first should get a preview of the printout. Else there is no need for memory when printing.

For Lotus Agenda virtual memory seems to imply EMS. You can set the amount reserved for printing in Utilities Customize – Memory Usage.



Jos

[rthamper]

Feb 4, 2023 0:53:51 GMT 1 Jos said:

I assume you first should get a preview of the printout. Else there is no need for memory when printing.

For Lotus Agenda virtual memory seems to imply EMS. You can set the amount reserved for printing in Utilities Customize – Memory Usage.

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Jos

I already have all the memory set to the max allowed by Agenda.  What disturbed me is that large files like this always printed fine in Agenda when I first created them years ago; but for some reason didn't seem to under vDos.  Agenda uses both conventional memory and expanded memory (not Extended Memory).  Agenda *should* have no problem with printing in vDos

Anyway, I've been playing around with different potential solutions to the problem . . . and I found out what seems to be the problem

In the print panel, the default range of pages to be printed defaults to pages 1 to 999.  If the Agenda view being printed has less pages than 999, Agenda would normally--under MS-DOS--stop automatically at the actual number of pages.  In vDOS, however, Agenda, for some reason, is unable to automatically do this when 999 is listed as the final page.   I discovered this by changing the 999 to 140 and the file printed fine.  The actual number of pages for this database view was 136, but Agenda didn't have a problem printing them

So this appears to be a quirk of Agenda under vDos

Anyway, thanks for your response