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From: ching@pepsi.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: uudecode -b16
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Date: 8 May 90 02:09:00 GMT
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In article <18693@nigel.udel.EDU> klehr@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Thomas J. Klehr) writes:
>
>I compiled compress.c with -DAZTECBITS=16, and it de-compressed a 16 bit
>file fine.  However, when I ran it as compress, it dumped core.
>

I believe 16 bit compress needs 69K of data space and can't fit in the
64K limit that minix imposes.

Mike Ching