Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!dcd From: dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: 1.4a compress bug Message-ID: <11326@fluke.COM> Date: 25 Sep 89 22:04:14 GMT References: <24734@louie.udel.EDU> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 19 Summary: fix to "unable to allocate htab" in compress In article <24734@louie.udel.EDU> LANCER%GACVAX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Lance A. Brown) writes: >I called the "new" compress command and had it error out with >the message "unable to allocate htab". It then deleted make.a.Z. > >LANCER@GACVAX1.BITNET To correct the error "unable to allocate htab": cc -i -o compress compress.c chmem =64000 compress The default make file didn't compile with -i and would chmem to some size too small for compress You probably only need to chmem =64000 compress to see positive results. I have not had compress delete any files. David Dyck Domain: dcd@tc.fluke.COM