[1417] in SIPB bug reports
METAFONT memory problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Duffy)
Mon Nov 5 00:18:09 1990
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, zeno@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 90 00:17:45 EST
From: Richard Duffy <zeno@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
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Folks: I got a package for generating Greek fonts from a public
ftp site, and tried to run it using sipb's METAFONT on a private
hard disk I use. The particular command I ran was
mf '\mode:=localmode;mag:=magstep(1);input grreg10'
It seemed to get most of the way through with no trouble, but
then ended by saying:
! METAFONT capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=60001].
<for(504.00032)> ...h)t_,((EXPR0),body_height)t_);
ENDFOR
makebox->...ody_depth)t_,(x,body_height)t_);endfor
.if.charic<>0:(TEXT0)((r+c...
endchar->...it;if.displaying>0:makebox(screenrule)
;showit;fi.endgroup;is_dou...
l.32 ... middoublechar(dims); this_letter; endchar
;
If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
Output written on grreg10.3122gf (188 characters, 420548 bytes).
...
Is there a way I can rerun this without this problem? I was using a
VAXstation 3100 with full resources (unlimit), which means I had
about 6 Meg of memory to use.
Thanks a lot.
