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"KB Required In .PIF Is Too Large" Error Load
DocumentID: 619161
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:38:30 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: A customer tries to run WP 5.1 as a non-Windows application under the Windows environment and he gets a message stating "KB Required In .PIF Is Too Large." If he runs WP 5.1 from DOS it works fine. Solutions: The customer has put a value in the PIF file for KB required and it is larger than the amount of available conventional memory. The value stored in the KB required is used to determine the minimum amount required to run. For example, if you place the value of 384K and Windows can only allocate 324K, then Windows will generate this message.

Windows 3.1 does not have enough memory to meet the KB required value. This error message is similar to the DOS error "Program Too Big To Fit In Memory."
The reason it works in Windows 3.0 and not in Windows 3.1 is because the Windows 3.1 TSR that loads as part of the virtual machine is slightly larger than the TSR that loaded with Windows 3.0. The customer must free conventional memory before entering Windows to correct the problem.

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