gichan@blake.u.washington.edu (Gilbert Chan) (07/31/90)
I'm posting this message for a friend, please direct all your responses to him at bchan@ddn-eur.ddn.mil __________________________________ I downloaded a binary copy of epoch.tar.z from sequent.kent.edu. When I tried to run emacs using emacs -nw (as described in the README file) on a Gateway 33-386 (ASIC Micronic motherboard) with 4 Meg of RAM + 150 Meg CDC HD running AT&T System V3.2.2, I got an error message "(12) bad system call - core dump". [I don't have a working X installed on my system, I just want to use emacs.] I wrote a simple program to print system error numbers and error messages. Error #12 relates to "Not enough space". Is that mean that I don't have enough memory? Can anyone tell me what's going on? I also got an error message "file too large" when I tried to uncompress large files (> 1.2Meg compressed) while the same file uncompressed fine on a Sun Sparc WS. I also tried compiling the compress.c (from Simtel20) using different -DUSERMEM=xxxx. The compress program works fine on smaller files and bombs on the big ones. Is that a way to assign memory ceiling on virtual memory under System V so that it can fool the sysem with more RAM? You helps are greatly appreciated, Brian bchan@ddn-eur.ddn.mil