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From: rd@tarpit.uucp (Bob Thrush)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Installing C News on System V/AT
Message-ID: <1989Jul20.052857.8385@tarpit.uucp>
Date: 20 Jul 89 05:28:57 GMT
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In article <1989Jul18.165520.18328@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1989Jul16.000620.10241@tarpit.uucp> rd@tarpit.UUCP (Bob Thrush) writes:
>> 6. V/AT was not able to use the supplied stdio library ...
>Please do try the improved stdio-test stuff from the 7 July patch.  ...

  With the July 7th patch, fast stdio fails during the second
"runtrials" in the first instance of the "stdiock.fast" test with
the following (condensed) diagnostic:
your stdio seems to be compatible (_ptr) incompatible (_cnt) with stdio.fast 

>> 7. I used compiler options "-Ml -g" (large model).  expire
>>    (small model with optimization) generates (in nemalloc() ) a
>>    "newsbin/expire/expire: out of memory" message and terminates.
>Does your news.h have SMALLMEM defined?  ...

  I had answered "big" to the address space question and SMALLMEM was
not defined. 
  With just a little bit of testing, it now appears that the small
model and the "small" answer ;-} have produced a working expire.
I will do a full install this weekend and check the whole system
more thoroughly.
  Thanks for the tip on SMALLMEM.

>>11. I still don't have superkludge working.  It complains during the
>>    regression test ...
>>./superkludge: message-id format problems: 
>>1 <wont1>  
>I *think* this is an awk problem. ...

  I'm now convinced that it's an awk problem.  However, not being
too comfortable with awk, I'll let it be and force expire to get
rid of the maps.
 
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