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From: jan@bagend.UUCP (Jan Isley)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: uncompress and enhanced diagnostics
Summary: uncompress wanders off down memory lane
Message-ID: <785@bagend.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 89 05:47:37 GMT
References: <486@manta.pha.pa.us> <19997@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Just me and my computers, Marietta, GA
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Well, I have the advanced diagnostics anyway but I thought I would play
with what was posted and everything is going fine until I ran uncompress.
It was running in the background while I edited something and after a few
minutes, I'm thinking it should be done by now but I still hear the disk
chugging away.  A ps reveals uncompress still running and taking up a lot 
of time:

   PID TTY  TIME COMMAND
 12218  w1  3:35 uncompre

About that time the notorious "no space left on device" appears, ls reveals:

-rw-r--r--  1 jan     users      2084 Jul  3 00:02 Install 
-rw-r--r--  1 jan     users      3328 Jul  3 00:01 README 
-rw-r--r--  1 jan     users   7022592 Jul  3 00:22 s4diag 
-rw-r--r--  1 jan     users     82737 Jul  3 00:07 s4diag.Z 
-rw-r--r--  1 jan     users    115772 Jul  3 00:06 s4diag.Z.uue 
-rw-r--r--  1 jan     users     55081 Jul  3 00:02 s4diag.Z.uue.1 
-rw-r--r--  1 jan     users     60691 Jul  3 00:02 s4diag.Z.uue.2 

I killed the process, took about 2 minutes to give me a prompt back.

0 blocks    8598 i-nodes

I think I'll stick with my version of s4diag!  Anyone else EVER see
uncompress do this?

unix-pc rev G, release 3.51, 3.5 MB memory, P5.1 and WD2010, ST4096 drive.

Jan Isley, follower of Zen, picker of nit
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