"Memory Full" Error Opening Large Lotus 1-2-3 for MS-DOS File

Last reviewed: April 11, 1997
Article ID: Q154775

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5 and 3.51
Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5 and 3.51

SYMPTOMS

When you open a very large Lotus 1-2-3 for MS-DOS spreadsheet, you receive a "Memory is full" error message.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, Lotus suggests using 123memsize=32,767 as an environment variable. You can add this environment variable to either the User Environment Variables tab of Control Panel System, or the Autoexec.nt file.

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Version : 3.5 3.51
Platform : WinNT

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Last reviewed: April 11, 1997
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