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Subject: out of string space
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 03:44:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 03:44:14 1987
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To the person who reported the 'out of string space' message from 'unsharing'
tthings (sorry - bouncing tt key). I had the same problem - some help can be
had be making a shell with a bigger stack 'chmem =64000 ....'. It still
doesn't help much though. Seems to me that the shell must be making a local
copy of the input file so that it can find the end-of-file given in the <<
bit of the command. It must also be making it in the heap!!! Anyone with
more knowledge than I care to comment??

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.

Or have I missed something obvious ???      Nigel