ESC1111%DDAESA10.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (N.Head) (07/23/87)
To the person who reported the 'out of string space' message from 'unsharing' tthings (sorry - bouncing tt key). I had the same problem - some help can be had be making a shell with a bigger stack 'chmem =64000 ....'. It still doesn't help much though. Seems to me that the shell must be making a local copy of the input file so that it can find the end-of-file given in the << bit of the command. It must also be making it in the heap!!! Anyone with more knowledge than I care to comment?? As a 'by the way' would it be too much to ask that shar's distributted on the nett actually be usable on MINIX systems (not all of us have access to a real UNIX). A case in point was tthe new commands archive sent recently (fix, du ettc.) which not only needed SED but wouldn't fit in the shell even when I edited all SED's to appropriate GRES commands. Or have I missed something obvious ??? Nigel
bc@njitsc1.njit.edu (Bill Cheswick) (07/23/87)
In article <378@louie.udel.EDU> ESC1111%DDAESA10.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (N.Head) writes: >bit of the command. It must also be making it in the heap!!! Anyone with >more knowledge than I care to comment?? There were mods to the shell posted around April that fix the out-of-string problem and clean up a few other things. I found it was needed to even start the 1.2 install. Check the archives. >As a 'by the way' would it be too much to ask that shar's distributted on the >nett actually be usable on MINIX systems (not all of us have access to a real >UNIX). A case in point was tthe new commands archive sent recently (fix, du >ettc.) which not only needed SED but wouldn't fit in the shell even when I >edited all SED's to appropriate GRES commands. Hear hear! It is much easier to unshar on Minix then to move all those files individually after unsharing on a Unix machine. (dosdir doesn't produce a list useful for a shell list, what with the headers and all. Unlike most of Andy's work, dosdir is quite different from the V7 version :-}) Anyway, I wrote little scripts for sed and chmod to simulate the commands in the shar file, so the shar file wouldn't have to be edited. Bill Cheswick UUCP: bellcore!argus!njitsc1!bc The Cygnherd of Morristown ARPA: cheswick@jvnca.csc.org