st: Memory Problem/ Big Stata File

[Max Steinhardt <max.steinhardt@hwwa.de>]

I have problems with a large dataset using intercooled stata 8.2 under 
windows 2000. The size of the dataset is 1gb. My RAM is 520 MB and my 
virtual memory is set on 1.5 g.
So it shoudn`t be a problem to load the data. But i can`t set memory 
bigger than 1g.the error message is :    op. sys. refuses to provide 
memory r(909)

can somebody answer, why stata doesn`t use the virtual memory?
Thanx,
best regards Max

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Max Steinhardt

Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA)
Hamburg Institute of International Economics
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20347 Hamburg, Germany

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E-Mail: max.steinhardt@hwwa.de
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