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by **John Ross Hun** » Sat, 08 Jul 1995 04:00:00

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem and knows of a
fix or work-around. Occasionally, when I drag an image from WebExplorer to a
light table, my swapper.dat file starts growing uncontrollably until the disk
is exhausted (this only happens with GIF89a images). My only recourse when this
starts happening is to try and shut down the system before it locks up. Of course
when the swapper.dat is thrashing I can't always shut the system down in time.

*Sigh*, just another frustrating IBM bug that turns an otherwise great utility
into a useless one. :(

John Ross Hunt
Law Bulletin Publishing Company

by **dend..** » Sun, 16 Jul 1995 04:00:00

Quote:>Hello, I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem and knows of a
>fix or work-around. Occasionally, when I drag an image from WebExplorer to a
>light table, my swapper.dat file starts growing uncontrollably until the disk
>is exhausted (this only happens with GIF89a images). My only recourse when this
>starts happening is to try and shut down the system before it locks up. Of course
>when the swapper.dat is thrashing I can't always shut the system down in time.

I have seen a similar thing happen when I try to use the Mutilmedia converter in the mmos2 directory.
I want convert a gif to bmp. The swapper grows until I get a swapper file full msg and by then the game is really over.

Why, is it the size,number of colors because it seems to handle the bmp's in the \os2\bitmap dir fine ?

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Dragging GIF89a image to light table freaks out swapper.dat

Dragging GIF89a image to light table freaks out swapper.dat

Dragging GIF89a image to light table freaks out swapper.dat