Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:47:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ove Kaaven <ovek AT arcticnet DOT no>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Memory-devouring ranlib de luxe
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On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Ove Kaaven wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it now, but it didn't help. The
> 'internal heap' was at 128 paragraphs I think, so I tried 512, 1024, and
> 8192, and I also freed 10 more megabytes of HD space. No go. "Memory
> exhausted". (I'm using cwsdpmi r3, if that makes any difference.)

I suggest trying with CWSDPMI r4, the latest.

Another thing to try is to run ar from Windows and install one of the 
available programs which watch memory usage.  Then you could tell whether 
it indeed uses up all memory or just lies to you.

Is that `ar' from the latest Binutils (2.8.1), btw?