Hi everybody:

Finally, it seems I found a solution, or at least, a workorund for cURL
commandline.
As I told initially, there are two calls to cURL inside the same DOS
application. The one with the issue is the FTP upload instruction.
The problem: Let's suppose that the application runs in c:\app_path\app.exe
that calls curl.exe. The data file to be uploaded is in
c:\app_path\data_path\file.dat

The command:

curl -T c:\app_path\data_path\file.dat ftp://user:pwd@ftpsite.com/directory/

makes the application get the message: "Program too big to fit in memory",
but the following command

curl -T data_path\file.dat ftp://user:pwd@ftpsite.com/directory/

runs fine!

The conclusion: if I use the relative path, program does not complain with
the error message. I tried this solution because I found the same behavior
in some other programs called the same way (from a DOS application). This
happens in both Win98SE and WinXP.

I will appreciate any further comments about this.

Best regards,

Marco

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Marco A. Cruz Quevedo <macruzq_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> Sometimes it happens in one system and the other runs fine and viceversa.
> For example, the instruction:
>
> curl (some options)  -o outfile
>
> gives error message, but same instruction
>
> curl (some options)  >outfile
>
> runs fine. Why?
>
> I think it is something inside the application, related to the way the
> program opens files.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bill Mercer <bmercer_at_nccer.org> wrote:
>
>>  If this is happening on Windows 98, it may be exactly what it says,
>> there might not be enough ram available for the dos prompt. ****
>>
>> You can tweak that by editing config.sys and autoexec.bat. Google for
>> specifics. In XP you can edit the properties of the command prompt to make
>> some similar changes.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> The only other things I personally know of that cause this are platform
>> or file system incompatibilities, which doesn’t sound likely in your case,
>> or corrupted system files, often related to malware infection. ****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:
>> curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] *On Behalf Of *Marco A. Cruz Quevedo
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:28 PM
>> *To:* curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
>> *Subject:* Program too big to fit in memory****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Hello everybody!
>>
>> I have been using cURL since few months ago and sometimes I get the
>> following issue:
>>
>> I have developed a MSDOS application that calls cURL (command line) from
>> inside the application.
>>
>> There are 2 calls: the first one is a FTP upload request and the other
>> one is a HTTP POST request.
>> The first one gives error: "Program too big to fit in memory". The
>> application was working fine but after a slight modification (a couple of
>> lines were added), the cURL started to display this message. But the second
>> call runs without any problem. The first time I got the message I simply
>> installed the version _without_ SSH (I am not using it). I am working under
>> Win XP and Win 98SE.
>>
>> I will appreciate any help on this issue.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Marco.
>>
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