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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Hint about A/UX Startup
Summary: Increase MultiZFinder memory allowance
Message-ID: <2794@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Sep 90 19:54:08 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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I have found it rather annoying that A/UX Startup's version of ed couldn't
edit large files (or even fairly small ones like inittab). But today, I
finally guessed what was going wrong. This leads to my hint:

When doing experiments with small to minimal A/UX configurations, increase
the MultiFinder application memory size from 512k to 1024k. This will allow
you to edit configuration files and scripts from A/UX Startup even if your
configuration doesn't quite work yet...


Another related hint:

If you are having (or may be having) autoconfiguration problems, add the
-v flag to the autoconfig instruction in /etc/sysinitrc. In fact, since
the startmsg thing covers up all the technobabble, you might as well always 
use verbose autoconfiguration.


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