Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!jrw
From: jrw@uncecs.edu (James R. White)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: unzip, (was (pc) /lib/opt running out of memory)
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.021900.21045@uncecs.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 02:19:00 GMT
References: <1990Dec2.040539.6590@mdivax1.uucp>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Lines: 10

>This weekend I took a quick whack at porting an unzip implementation
>for unix alleged to run in various environments including coherent
>(which ought to mean it'll run in 64k) to minix.  I quickly ran into
>a problem with /lib/opt (chmem'd as big as it will go) running out
>of memory.

I got unzip 3.10 working on 386 minix using Bruce's compiler. As I recall,
the only glitch was that it needed the C string routine option because
unimplod.c has a serious abuse of memcpy(). Code and data were both
less than 64k.