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#LISP EMPTY FILES

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#21673From: Don StrimbuApr 8, 1988 11:56 AM
Michael…. how big is your Hard Disk? … On my DESKPRO 386/20 Model 130, with Drive C: a whopping 130Mb under Compaq DOS 3.31, I have found that AFLIX.LSP writes GREAT script files, but *ZERO-BYTE* <.MVI> files……. no BIG problem, but I can see where it could be….. (<.MVI>s are easy to rebuild…… … Did I see a thread on this, somewhere? Is it LISP? Is it ACAD? Am I dreaming? Do I have to re-FDISK my machine? Awwwww, poop. -ds .
#21686From: Michael J. EnosApr 8, 1988 9:20 PM
Don, I have a 40 meg drive in both the Sperry-IT, and the ACER 1100. I don't think its the disk drive because the file is normally about 100 bytes in size. Just today I had a client call me who is using the software on a Compaq 386/20, (I'm not sure what size disk), and he had a case of the dreaded 0 byte file! But…. He also kept getting out ostring space errors. Could it be that AutoLISP is almost out of string space, but not enough to tell you, then half way through writing my file it runs out, and then dies in the process??? This way it would never tell me that it is out of string space, and it just trashes that file??? I ddon't know. At this point I'll accept any theory! —Mike
#21686From: Michael J. EnosApr 8, 1988 9:20 PM
Don, I have a 40 meg drive in both the Sperry-IT, and the ACER 1100. I don't think its the disk drive because the file is normally about 100 bytes in size. Just today I had a client call me who is using the software on a Compaq 386/20, (I'm not sure what size disk), and he had a case of the dreaded 0 byte file! But…. He also kept getting out ostring space errors. Could it be that AutoLISP is almost out of string space, but not enough to tell you, then half way through writing my file it runs out, and then dies in the process??? This way it would never tell me that it is out of string space, and it just trashes that file??? I ddon't know. At this point I'll accept any theory! —Mike