A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing !

Iain McNaughton im@t956379207.demon.co.uk
Mon, 14 May 2001 13:12:12 +0100


Hi !

I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to go for help with Hugs,
but I'll give it try...

Situation is this:

I was running some scripts in WinHugs, and everything was running
happily. I then attempted to add ( using ":a" ) a new script, and
received the following error message: "Program code storage space
exhausted".

Well, I thought to myself ( fool that I evidently was ! ) that there
must be a parameter somewhere in Hugs that I can set to increase the
program storage space, so I set out to find it. Unfortunately, having
tweaked a couple of numbers ( heap size was one, I think, and the other
was something similar-looking ), and restarted Hugs, I now have the
following error as I start WinHugs: "Cannot allocate heap storage".
Immediately after this error message within the WinHugs interface, a
pop-up box appears, containing the message: "Fatal Error: unable to load
prelude". At that point, WinHugs disappears.

I've tried uninstalling Hugs, and completely re-installing it, but that
doesn't appear to do any good. So, I've clearly f*cked up somewhere, but
I'm not sure where. Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I understand that this might not count as a bug in its own right, as the
software is presumably behaving in a perfectly sensible way; rather, the
bug is in me, the over-adventurous user. However, though I've read all
the documentation, I'm stuck, and would appreciate any help or
assistance you can give me. If you want to flame me for gross stupidity,
that would be fine, too !

Thanks for your ( hoped for ) help.

Sincerely,

Iain McNaughton.


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Iain McNaughton