pcl (07/28/82)
I am in contact with two sites that are trying to bring up netnews on small PDP 11s; one is an 11/40 running v7, and the other is an 11/45 running 3.0. My question here is about how to get them to fit - there seems to be memory problems. Compiling the source (2.8) as is, gives a 'readnews' that drops core when run. Well, I'd seen this before on an 11/70, and discovered it was due to "too many local variables" in readr.c. That was fixed (on the 11/70) by making enough of those local variables "static". However, when my collegue tried that on the 11/45, it made the total size of the program too large. So, it looks like something more substantial will have to be done, and that the best place to start is cutting down some buffer sizes. Has anyone out there dealt with this, and if so, how? Paul Lustgarten ixn5c!pcl Bell Labs - Indian Hill South (312) 979-1736
sjb (07/29/82)
B news has to be loaded with the -i flag on PDP's or you will get those readnews core dumps.