Microsoft KB Archive/98548

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Memory Error Message Opening or Scrolling DisplayWrite File

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Q98548

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c

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SYMPTOMS
When you try to open a DisplayWrite-formatted document into Word for Windows, you may receive one or both of the following the error messages during the conversion process or when you subsequently edit the document:

Not Enough Memory to Complete Operation

Out of Memory

In addition, conversion takes a relatively long time to complete, and scrolling through the converted document may be slow.

WORKAROUND
To avoid this problem, reopen the original document in DisplayWrite, resave in RFT-DCA format, and open the document from RFT-DCA format into Word.

For more information on how to save a DisplayWrite document in RFT-DCA format, query on the following words:

"conv and displaywrite and save and rft and dca" `

MORE INFORMATION
These problems occur because the DisplayWrite document being converted contains EBCDIC line-drawing characters (used, for example, to create table borders or boxes in organizational charts). The DisplayWrite converter tries to convert each of these characters to equivalents in the MS Linedraw font by using separate SYMBOL field entries in Word.

The current converter tries to convert line-drawing characters to SYMBOL fields in memory without writing to a temporary file on disk. This slows the conversion process significantly and may cause the converter to run out of memory while it converts the document, depending on how much conventional memory was available when you initiated the conversion.

Scrolling through documents that do successfully convert is slowed by the large number of SYMBOL fields. You can see these fields if you choose Field Codes from the View menu in Word.

Word's RFT-DCA converter translates EBCDIC line-drawing characters to equivalent characters in the MS Linedraw font without applying SYMBOL fields for every character. As a result, the memory usage and slow scrolling problems described above for the DisplayWrite converter do not occur.

Microsoft has identified this issue as a problem with the DisplayWrite converter currently available as part of the Word for Windows Supplemental File Conversions Disk. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: textconv 2.00a 2.00a-CD 2.00b 2.00c rftdca dcarft rft/dca dca/rft revisable form content architecture

Keywords : kbconversion

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