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Novell's LOGIN.EXE Not Releasing Enough Memor
DocumentID: 601425
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:41 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: When the customer boots the machine and logs onto the network, a Novell menu automatically comes up. The customer then tries to execute WordPerfect and gets the error "Program Too Big To Fit In Memory" or "Not Enough Memory." If the customer escapes out of the menu and starts the same menu from the prompt and then executes WP, it goes in without any errors. Solutions: Novell's LOGIN.EXE was not releasing the memory it uses when a TSR 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 102K 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 102K of memory. If that additional 102K 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 problem will occur with any menuing program loaded from the login script such as the Office Shell, Saber menu system, etc.

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