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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: pathalias on machines with 16 bit address space?
Message-ID: <877@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 23:26:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.877
Posted: Sat Oct 26 23:26:09 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Oct-85 01:33:05 EDT
References: <145@illogica.UUCP> <610@down.FUN> <1631@druil.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: it's not just the 16-bit machines...

In article <1631@druil.UUCP> lat@druil.UUCP (TepperL) writes:
>> i have no urge to hack up a disk-based version of pathalias, and i don't
>> recommend that anyone else try.  sorry, 16 bitters, you're out of luck.
>>
>> 	peter
>
>Well, not necessarily out of luck.  A 16-bit site need only find a
>32-bit neighbor that would be willing to process the maps for them.

It's not so simple, and the problem is worse than Peter indicates.
lsuc is a 32-bit machine with 1 megabyte of memory, of which UNIX
takes 300K. Pathalias will not run on the current "mod.map"s in the
remaining ~700K. 

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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