john@zentec.UUCP (08/17/84)
<> Why does readnews run so well on an 11/70 and not on an 8086 based Xenix system, you might ask ? If one looks at defs.h, one will find an ifdef on pdp11. This changes a well used buffer define to a smaller value which makes the data/bss/stack area in readnews fit in a 64K segment. If one does not define pdp11, readnews and other programs will run some of the time but not all of the time (save does not work, drops core, etc.). from defs.h: > #ifdef pdp11 > # define BUFLEN 128 /* standard buffer size */ > #else > # define BUFLEN 256 /* standard buffer size */ > #endif -- John Weeks (408) 727-7662 Zentec Corp. {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!zentec!john "I ain't afraid of no ghosts"