D1FRCMV0%EB0UB011.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (George A Reiss) (05/25/91)
Hello, Just a short question. It is possible to have 16 bit compress on a i286. I tried to compile the source code (compress.c) with the flag -DAZTECBITS=16 But when i try to uncompress some 16b *.Z file it doesn't work at all. Thank you for the answers. George A Reiss. D1FRCMV0@eb0ub011.bitnet
gerloff@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Gerloff) (05/27/91)
In article <54610@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, D1FRCMV0%EB0UB011.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (George A Reiss) writes: |> Hello, |> Just a short question. It is possible to have 16 bit compress on a |> i286. |> |> I tried to compile the source code (compress.c) with the flag |> |> -DAZTECBITS=16 |> |> But when i try to uncompress some 16b *.Z file it doesn't work at all. |> Thank you for the answers. |> |> George A Reiss. D1FRCMV0@eb0ub011.bitnet Hello George! You can't use compress with 16 bits on an i286 because of the braindamaged architecture. compress need's about 400 KB with 16 bit and a normal Minix process gets only 64 KB code and 64 KB data. You need a i386 and the modifikations for Minix, or a Motorola based machine :-). Greetings, Olaf -- ****************************************************************************** * Olaf Gerloff * Internet: GERLOFF@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de * * Technical University Berlin (FRG)* or gerloff@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de * * Department of Computer Science * BITNET : GERLOFF@DB0TUI11 * * Computerbased Informationsystems * Usenet : ...!mcsun!unido!opal!gerloff * ****************************************************************************** * Impossible things will be executed immediately, * * miracles take a little longer! * ******************************************************************************