Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: turbo C memory question
Summary: a misplaced meta-comment, and a misplaced direct comment
Message-ID: <28617@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 89 00:58:08 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Chris Torek proposes that machine-specific questions should be posted to
a machine-specific newsgroup, and that if no appropriate group exists a
mailing-list should be organized....

This seems excessive.  Chris, are you really going to take the time and
effort to create a new mailing-list, possibly generating lots of net
discussion (bandwidth) in the process, just as a preliminary to asking
if anyone has a replacement screen for your TRS-80?  I suggest that a
more reasonable approach would tolerate the question in a marginally
related group, with the proviso that answers should be mailed rather
than broadcast.  Surely this would consume less bandwidth than the
attempt to create a mailing-list for the sole purpose of answering one
question.

Meanwhile, reluctantly compounding the whole furshlugginer mess...

baalke@mars.UUCP (Ron Baalke) <2004@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> :
-unless you are writing an extremely large program. The stack size can be
-increased but it is a bit tricky.

It is easy.  Assign the desired value to the implementation-defined
variable _stacklen.  Calculating the desired value is a bit tricky.  All
this is documented for TC v2.0 and is in READ.ME doc. for v1.0.


Followups about TC should go to comp.sys.ibm.pc.  Followups about
appropriateness of the question should also go out of comp.lang.c, but
I don't know how to redirect followups to two different newsgroups.
Don't post flames, mail them to me and I'll increase their entropy.