Re: [MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Axel M. Roest
At 10:24 +0100 11-02-2001, Peter Hartmann wrote: >At 9:53 Uhr +0100 11.02.2001, Axel M. Roest wrote: >>Ever since I installed MacOS 9.1 I get the following error when I > >What error? The error in the Subject line. Sorry for not stating that clearer. >>open MacPerl by launching a droplet. When I

re: [MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Axel M. Roest
At 09:25 -0500 11-02-2001, Paul Schinder wrote: >Try this: quit *all* running applications but the Finder, and then >try starting your droplet. If it works, the problem is simply that >you don't have Thanks for the advice, but it also happened when it was the first application to launch (on a

Re: [MacPerl] UTF8 conversion

2001-02-11 Thread Richard Cook
Joel Rees wrote: > Why not make everything a constant 2-byte width and be done with it? > Early estimates for CJKV were about 3,000 each for everyday use, with > lots of overlap, so the 20,000 allocated in UNICODE was thought to have > been enough. But the real numbers are coming in, and each is c

Re: [MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:25:45 -0500, Paul Schinder wrote: >The error usually means that the OS can't find a continguous block of >memory big enough to run MacPerl in. Not necessarily so. "Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memoy problem)" is the catch all error message for *whateve

re: [MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Paul Schinder
At 12:35 PM +0100 2/11/01, Axel M. Roest wrote: >At 20:09 +1030 11-02-2001, Paul McCann wrote: >>Just a guess: maybe it's the memory allocation of the *droplet* and not >>MacPerl itself that's giving you grief? Try bumping that up from the 64K >>default and see if it helps. > >Thanks for the advic

Re: [MacPerl] sleep

2001-02-11 Thread Greenblatt & Seay
At 3:01 AM +0100 2001/02/11, g3pb wrote: >i need to cause a delay in my program, sleep delays for a full seconds or >more, how do i sleep for 1/60 or multiple of 1/60 of a seconds? > >thanks > >-- hcir >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] select(undef, undef, undef, timeout); 'timeout' is in seconds but wi

Re: [MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:53:27 +0100, Axel M. Roest wrote: >Ever since I installed MacOS 9.1 I get the following error when I >open MacPerl by launching a droplet. When I open MacPerl directly >there is no problem, and I can subsequently double-click the droplet. >This happens with *any* droplet

Re: [MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of amemory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Peter Hartmann
At 9:53 Uhr +0100 11.02.2001, Axel M. Roest wrote: >Ever since I installed MacOS 9.1 I get the following error when I What error? >open MacPerl by launching a droplet. When I open MacPerl directly >there is no problem, and I can subsequently double-click the droplet. >This happens with *any* dro

re: [MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Axel M. Roest
At 20:09 +1030 11-02-2001, Paul McCann wrote: >Just a guess: maybe it's the memory allocation of the *droplet* and not >MacPerl itself that's giving you grief? Try bumping that up from the 64K >default and see if it helps. Thanks for the advice Paul, I upped the memory allocation of the droplet t

re: [MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of amemory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Paul McCann
Hi Axel, On Sunday, 11 February 2001 at 7:23PM you asked: >Ever since I installed MacOS 9.1 I get the following error when I >open MacPerl by launching a droplet. > >I never get any other memory problems and I even tried it with >MacPerl set to 60 MB. I also rebuilt my desktop file. >

[MacPerl] Failed to launch MacPerl (possibly because of a memory problem).

2001-02-11 Thread Axel M. Roest
Ever since I installed MacOS 9.1 I get the following error when I open MacPerl by launching a droplet. When I open MacPerl directly there is no problem, and I can subsequently double-click the droplet. This happens with *any* droplet. It does not happen with plain perl files. I never get any