Re: Protection against some Front end problems and crashes
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg13030] Re: Protection against some Front end problems and crashes
- From: immtwg at busk.gbar.dtu.dk (Torben Winther Graversen)
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:26:28 -0400
- Organization: UNI-C
- References: <6n6i1o$uo$1@dragonfly.wolfram.com>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Barthelet, Luc (lucb at ea.com) wrote: : As mentionned in a few messages recently it is not uncommon to make a : mistake and then get a huge output to be generated. When that happens, : one is either stuck for a long time or crashes. [...] : reallyBig[x_] := If[ByteCount[x] > 200000, "Too Large", x]; : $Post = reallyBig; : It will replace any "large" output by the string "Too Large". I cannot : count how many times this saved me. Hope it helps you too. [...] However, a large plot of 10000 points will easily produce an output greater than 200000, but it will be formatted as "- SurfaceGraphics -", which is no problem to the frontend. Any suggestions for a way to only print "Too Large" when the formatted form actually generates a huge amount of data? -- Best regards, Torben Winther Graversen http://www.student.dtu.dk/~immtwg