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From: bc@njitsc1.njit.edu (Bill Cheswick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: out of string space
Message-ID: <164@njitsc1.njit.edu>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 09:41:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 09:41:04 1987
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Summary: You need shell mods posted earlier

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.


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