Overlay Limit

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Palmquist" <nlp at vss3.com>
To: "filePro List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Overlay Limit


> Does anyone know if there is a limit to how many overlays you can put on
> one print code table?
>
> We have added about 50 overlay names to one printcode table. (I can get
> an exact count but this is close.)
>
> All the overlays work until we got to adding one more.  It reports it is
> unable to find: P:\fp\FPDLDIR (the \f do a funky thing but tht is the
> right folder. The error does not include the overlay filename.
>
> It looks like we hit a ceiling and nothing will let us add another
> working overlay name.
>
> Has anyone else had this issue?
>
> We plan to start a new code table and use that to continue.  But I can
> find nothing about a limit at only 50 overlay entries. (We are at
> printcode number 249 and I found that limit to be 9999, so we are not at
> the end of the printcode table.)

I think I ran into the same thing on linux fp 5.0.14 the other day, and I 
was only adding one print code.
I thought maybe %filename only worked for codes below a certain number, then 
maybe it was the particular characters in the filename, length of filename, 
or some fluke interaction with the other print codes I had on the same line.

It was saying it couldn't find the filename, the file was there, permissions 
were good (including parent dirs)  $PFDLDIR was good, etc...
The display for what it couldn't find looked a little suspect (sorry I don't 
remember exactly how)

Ah, one thing I seem to remember was I couldn't refer to another print code 
unless the referenced print code number was small.
Like I couldn't say 621 :  blah blah %500 blah
but I could say 621 : blah blah %75 blah
where %75 had the exact same codes as %500
And it might have only been the %filename part that failed in the referenced 
code not the whole code.

It's working now on #501 and the code is:
501 : %4 %3 %"FV-237.pcl" $1b *p0x0Y %10 %11 %15 %17 %24 %30

This seems to support the referenced code idea. It's not the way I really 
wanted to write that code, but it:
* is a high number itself
* includes a %filename
* includes other codes
* does not include any high numbered codes
* is working since a few weeks ago

So I really don't know what it might be but it seems like I might have hit 
the same thing.

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The pattern appeared to be I couldn't use %filename on any printcode above 
some number.
It's working now with the print code on number 501 so I'm not so sure about 
that