fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (10/22/90)
Has anyone ported Pcomm or their other favorite communications program to uPort sysV/286 ? I am trying to but my compiler hangs on two of the X-modem procedures and I have to do a hard reboot (most unhappy!) I tried throwing in a -Ml to use the large lib but to no avail. Don Levinson fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu p.s. can anyone tell me what troubles I might encounter with a 287 chip in unix?
berny@tndsyd.oz (Berny Goodheart) (10/25/90)
In article <1990Oct22.092129.1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu>, fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes: > Has anyone ported Pcomm or their other favorite communications program to > uPort sysV/286 ? I am trying to but my compiler hangs on two of the X-modem > procedures and I have to do a hard reboot (most unhappy!) I tried throwing > in a -Ml to use the large lib but to no avail. > The 286 is only capable of compressing to 12 BITS. Most 32 bit machines compress files to 16 bits. If the files you are trying to de-compress where originally compressed on a 32 bit machine, then the chances are you will not be able to decompress them on the 286 unless they where compressed on the 32 bit machine with a switch "-b12". unpack uses a different algorithm and requires files to be compressed using the UNIX pack(1) file. These files use the ".z" file name extention and not the ".Z" as used by the PD compress utility. pack(1) files are not compatible with compressed files. Regards...berny
wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul) (10/27/90)
In article <501@tndsyd.oz> berny@tndsyd.oz (Berny Goodheart) writes: )In article <1990Oct22.092129.1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu>, fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes: )> Has anyone ported Pcomm or their other favorite communications program to )> uPort sysV/286 ? I am trying to but my compiler hangs on two of the X-modem )> procedures and I have to do a hard reboot (most unhappy!) I tried throwing )> in a -Ml to use the large lib but to no avail. )The 286 is only capable of compressing to 12 BITS. Most )32 bit machines compress files to 16 bits. If the files you are trying )to de-compress where originally compressed on a 32 bit machine, ... Apart from the fact that I have used a 16-bit uncompress on a 286 several years ago, the reply above does not seem to have anything to do with the question it purports to answer. What is going on? -- Wolf N. Paul, UNIX SysAdmin, IIASA, A - 2361 Laxenburg, Austria, Europe PHONE: +43-2236-71521-465 FAX: +43-2236-71313 UUCP: uunet!iiasa!wnp INTERNET: wnp%iiasa@relay.eu.net BITNET: tuvie!iiasa!wnp@awiuni01.BITNET