samperi@mancol.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) (02/07/88)
Roughly what are the memory requirements of compress? I recently applied John Rupley's patches for compress 4.0 so that it works with Microport SystemV/286, and it works fine with files that are no larger than about 250K, but it dumps core when I try to compress larger files. I suspect that compressing larger files requires more memory than I have (a little over a meg of available mem at boot time). -- Dominick Samperi, Manhattan College, NYC manhat!samperi@NYU.EDU ihnp4!cmcl2!manhat!samperi (that's an ell in cmcl2)
john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (02/08/88)
In article <272@mancol.UUCP>, samperi@mancol.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes: > Roughly what are the memory requirements of compress? I recently applied > John Rupley's patches for compress 4.0 so that it works with Microport > SystemV/286, and it works fine with files that are no larger than about > 250K, but it dumps core when I try to compress larger files. Are you using 16-bit compress or 12 bit ? This may not be totally relavent but I received a patch that I applied to compress and it lets me do full 16-bit compress/decompress on my Microport system. Its used mainly with News feeds but I routinely compress files in the 1 MB size region. Presently I compressed up my News2.11B sources and the "compressed" file size is around 500K. Me and a freind also swap a lot of DOS software via UUCP and have compressed files with a size of 1.2MB. If your interested, I can send you the 16-bit compress patch. Im currently running with 3MB of main memory with 1960K available after boot. John -- John Gayman, WA3WBU | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john 1869 Valley Rd. | ARPA: wa3wbu!john@uunet.UU.NET Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P