david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) (12/11/87)
Just a quick warning that the compress which comes with the system is compiled at something smaller than full size. I found this out when I was moving the tar file for the latest GNU emacs over to my machine and compress died halfway through. Recompiling compress from the sources and forcing it to use a full size array created a compress program which uncompressed the whole archive. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about ... part of the procedure for building compress is a shell script which tries to figure out how big a program can run on your system. It then makes a #define USERMEM which is included into compress.c and ends up determining the maximum number of "bits" this copy of compress will be able to handle. By default on a UnixPC, the script generates a fairly small number, yet the system itself is capable of supporting the full size number. (er... at least on *my* system it can, but then I've got 3.5 megs of real memory plus the 67 meg disk). -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Winter health warning: Remember, don't eat the yellow snow!