In an article of <2 Dec 89 22:32:36 GMT>, jwang at smu.edu (Jainbai Wang) writes: JW> Fatal error C1059 : out of near heap space ... JW>SOME ONE PLEASE GIVE A HINT ON HOW TO SOLVE IT ! In addition to the reasons you gave, this is also a symptom of memory hogging by network or CD-ROM drivers. Later, dEN