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PRB: Viewer Errors 6181 and 6182

Article ID: 114472

Article Last Modified on 10/14/2003

APPLIES TO

This article was previously published under Q114472

SYMPTOMS

When trying to compile an RTF file with the Microsoft Multimedia Viewer, the following errors occur:
error 6181 specified word breaker unable to break word
error 6182 failure on DLL breaking function

CAUSE

These errors can occur if the TEMP environment variable is not set to a valid drive and directory or if that drive does not have enough space.

RESOLUTION

At a command prompt, type

set

in order to determine the settings of the environment variables. If this environment variable is not set or is not set correctly, do the following 2 steps:
  1. create a directory (for example, C:\TEMP)
  2. set the environment variable at the command prompt (set TEMP=c:\temp)

MORE INFORMATION

NOTE: If the TEMP environment variable is set to a remote drive, Viewer will ignore the TEMP setting and place temporary files in your Windows directory instead.

It is not a good idea to set the TEMP environment variable to the root directory. Windows has a limit on the number of files which can be created in the root directory. Page 12-4 of the "Viewer Authoring Guide" states the following:

If the drive on which this directory resides is not large enough to hold the files, the compiler will report error messages and eventually halt compilation.

The error messages that will be generated are these errors, 6181 and 6182.

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