Novell's LOGIN.EXE Not Releasing Enough Memor

DocumentID: 653256
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:22 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: When the customer boots her machine and logs onto the network, a Novell menu automatically comes up. She then tries to execute WordPerfect and gets the error "Program Too Big To Fit In Memory" or "Not Enough Memory." If she escapes out of her menu and starts the same menu from the prompt and then executes WP, it goes in without any errors. Solutions: or other program is run from within the login script. Executing the menu program from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file instead of the login script corrected the problem. Adding the "Exit" command (Exit Menu) on the last line of the login script may also have corrected the problem. Creating a batch file that executes the menu with the "Exit MENU.BAT" command could have also corrected the problem. When you run a TSR or another program from the login script, LOGIN.EXE does not release the memory it uses. Therefore, if LOGIN.EXE takes 12K to run and at the end of the login script you execute a TSR or another .EXE that takes 30K, because LOGIN.EXE is still in memory you lose the additional 12K of memory. If that additional 12K of memory is the difference between running WP and not running WP, the user must execute the MENU.EXE file from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and not the login script. However, adding the command "Exit Menu" at the bottom of the login script allows the menu to be executed, but releases the LOGIN.EXE from memory. *This information is given strictly as a troubleshooting option.

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