Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Print/Preview crash system

[Rudolf Schaffer <info@asgalium.com>]

HxEngr@aol.com wrote:

>
> This sounds very much like the behavior of Protel and a couple of other
> applications under Win95 with low resources. My standard defenses, which have
> pretty much eliminated this problem:
>
> 1) Restart Protel periodically.
>
> 2) Reboot the system about once per day.
>
> 3) Add RSRCMTR.EXE to the Startup menu so that it's always running.
>
> 4) Avoid running certain obscure consumer applications at the same time as
> Protel.
>
> Note that none of the above prevent me from running other mainstream
> applications with Protel. I often run Protel with a couple of Word documents
> open, an Excel spreadsheet or two, AOL open and online, Adobe Acrobat Reader
> with a couple of documents open, WinZip, a couple of Explorer windows, and a
> couple of other specialty applications. But anything which makes heavy
> demands on the Resource memory pool (limited in size regardless of the amount
> of physical memory) will cause conflicts with Protel.
>
> Steve Hendrix
>

Dear Steve,

Thank you for your answer and informations to work around
some problems with Win 95.

Initialy, i thought that this problem was caused by the circular
external shape of the PCB...

A second try with Print/Preview was 100 % ok after my e-mail.

Kind regards

Rudolf


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