ML>>>>   Memory: -2,116,820,992 bytes remain in heap

 ml>> uh, the above is not harddrive related... memory and heap
 ml>> are specific terms that do not relate to harddrives at all...

 VC> When I ran Max under OS/2 the heap figure included Ram AND
 VC> free HD space allocated for swapspace which in my setup was
 VC> all available.

DOS or native OS/2 version??

 VC> When the HDD had more than 2gb (I think) of free space I did
 VC> get similar numbers coming up.

wierd...

 VC> My solution having an uptodate ish fixpak installed was to
 VC> reduce free HDD space to below 2gb (where 1k = 1024) and
 VC> this got rid of this and other problems that some programs
 VC> refused to run because of free space limits below 500mb.

sounds like you could (have) use(d) 2gbfix.com that i just mention to marC
in another message...

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