Microsoft KB Archive/78437

= Internal Stack Overflow with WordPerfect 5.1 and MS-DOS 5.0 =

Article ID: 78437

Article Last Modified on 11/19/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q78437



SUMMARY
WordPerfect has confirmed that the following error message may be displayed on a system running WordPerfect 5.1 with MS-DOS 5.0.

Internal Stack Overflow

System Halted

To correct this error, use the BUFFERS= and STACKS= commands in the CONFIG.SYS file.

This information applies to Microsoft MS-DOS version 5.0.



MORE INFORMATION
The following commands must be added to the CONFIG.SYS file to resolve the above error message: BUFFERS=X (where X is 16 or more) STACKS=16,128 The STACKS command needs to occur AFTER the BUFFERS= statement, and BUFFERS needs to be set to at least 16. The default number for BUFFERS is 15 for machines with at least 640K memory. The STACKS command supports the dynamic use of data stacks to handle hardware interrupts. The syntax of the command is:

STACKS=n,s

(where n specifies the number of stacks and s specifies the size [in bytes] of each stack).

The stacks are created within the buffers; therefore, the STACKS command must occur after the BUFFERS statement.

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