ACSCCRA@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU ("Curtis R. Anderson") (06/23/88)
Well, I received a handful of responses to date. All of them have stated that they have no code, but would be interested in such code if it existed. From doing some investigation into writing this program, I have followed one suggestion to convert runoff tags to LaTeX commands, which I also have thought of. Also, I will have all the Runoff and TeX commands stored in memory, in sorted sequence, so a binary search may be applied (trying to store these commands in an indexed file eats CPU time and I/O!!). Question (again)... How do sites stand as far as sizes of working set extents? Here, users get 5,000 pages interactively, so I don't see too many problems with loading the data file into a FORTRAN program. If sites seem to have working set restrictions, I may wish to do some kind of dynamic space allocation with variable length commands and translations. Just to stage the commands, I need around 250 additional pages brought into the working set. Would a working set of around 1000 pages (roughly) cause processes to pagefault excessively at other sites? --Curtis