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Error Message: "Disk Full, Press Any Key"
DocumentID: 651585
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:08 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: The customer tried to print a 20 page document. The document was created in WP 5.0, modified on the VAX, and then transferred to WP 5.1 as an ASCII file. The customer can only print the document one page at a time. If the customer tries to print more than one page, the error message "Disk Full, Press Any Key to Continue" will appear. After pressing a key, the message "Incompatible File Format" appears. We tried the /32 and /ne startup options and received the same results. We were finally able to print the full document only after removing Windows from the hard drive (at no time during this process had Windows been running). The file the customer was trying to print is 67,000 bytes. There were 170,000 bytes free on the hard disk prior to removing Windows and 533,248 bytes in memory. In WP, the default drive is C:\WP51. Is there any other way to print the document other than removing programs from the hard drive? Solutions: The error message "Disk Full" is a valid error message in this case. There are several options to help her around the problem:

1.      Free up disk space on the hard drive.
2.      Use the /pf=a: startup option to redirect the print virtual files to a blank high density disk. This will give the customer 1.2M of free space for WP to work with. This should be plenty of room.
3.      Use Print to Hardware port. This will get the print information to the printer faster. Which may keep up with WP writing the information to disk. Without this option WP has to check to see if the port is ready for each byte of information sent down, instead of sending down as much information as the printer buffer will allow.

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