Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!brian
From: brian@jtsv16.UUCP (Brian A. Jarvis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Problem w/doscp command.  Possible bug?
Keywords: sco xenix doscp help bug
Message-ID: <1012@jtsv16.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 89 14:36:03 GMT
References: <4341@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: brian@jtsv16.jts.com (Brian A. Jarvis)
Organization: JTS Computer Systems Ltd., Toronto
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In article <4341@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bt455s39@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Carmen Hardina) writes:
>I'm having difficulty copying more than 14 files at a time with the doscp
>command.  I am running SCO XENIX 2.3.1 on an Everex 3000A 16MHz 386 w/3MB
>of RAM, 64K cache, 183MB Maxtor hard disk w/Adaptec 2372B RLL 1:1 controller.
>151MB XENIX partition, 32MB PC-DOS 3.20 partition.  Here is the scenario...
>
># doscp *.MAC c:/egamac<Return>
>
>It begins copying all the files in the current directory with the MAC extension
>to an existing subdirectory named "egamac" on the DOS partition.  But, it stops
>after the 14th file (a total of 268,416 bytes) and displays this error.
>
>doscp: no memory for buffers
>					Thanks in advance,
>						--Carmen

I saw this bug back with SCO XENIX 386 2.3, after upgrading from 2.2.3 (if
memory serves).  I send e-mail to SCO about it, then got a call back from
a techie there who said he had duplicated the problem and that after
recompiling the 'doscp' function under 386 mode instead of 86 mode, everything
was fine.  He sent a copy of the new executable on a diskette a couple of
days later and it ran fine on my system.

A few months later, we upgraded to 2.3.2 and found that the old executable
hadn't been replaced!  God, I hate it when people don't or can't learn from
their mistakes (or vicariously, from someone else's), particularly when they
went through the trouble of creating an appropriate fix!  *sigh*

Brian

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