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Have you ever actually tried running Hurricane with Nat and/or Dragon
dictate and Win 95? Last year both Helix and Dragon told me that it
wouldn't work so I never tried it.
Rose
John M. Goodman wrote:
>
> Many (most?) Windows "out of memory" problems occur not because you don't
> have enough memory--or even enough virtual memory (disk space). Instead
> they are caused by running too low on resource space. This is a small
> number of very small (64kB each) "heaps" in which Windows keeps track of
> various things.
>
> Go to Help|About in File Manager (Win3.x) or in Windows Explorer (Win95) to
> see one reading on how much free resource space you have. In Windows 3.x a
> figure of less than about 30% is often a disasterously low amount. In
> Windows 95 the corresponding figure is somewhat higher, because of the way
> Win95 reports this value. I'd suggest that anything under 50% is problematic.
>
> The best way to free up more resource space is to load a program called
> Hurricane from Helix Software (now a part of NAI). You can find out more at
> the NAI web site:
>
> http://www.nai.com/products/retail/diagnostic/hurricane.asp
>
> Good luck.
>
> John
>
> At 11:29 PM 6/1/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I've been on this list for sometime because of my research in this area.
> >Well, now I find myself needing the technology because of an RSI.
> >
> >I began by installing the program onto a Zip Disk, thinking that because I
> >do my computer work in a public lab, this would be the best idea.
> >Everything worked fine throughout the training but today when I went to
> >use Dragon I kept getting an "Out of Memory" error. I tried reinstalling
> >it on the hard drive but still got the same error. The machine, which has
> >32 MB of memory was showing 80% free when this was happening. The only
> >thing that I did differently was to copy my training file from the Zip
> >Disk.
> >
> >Can anybody help me? Please.
> >
> >David Marshall B.Ed.
> >dmarshal@@ucalgary.ca
>
> =======
> John M. Goodman, Ph.D., author of "Peter Norton's Inside the PC,"
> Seventh Edition (Sams 1997, ISBN 0-672-31041-4)
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