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From: peter@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org (Peter J. de Vrijer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: NYUMINIX:TOOLS\MINIXDSK.0 part 1/4
Message-ID: <9103035139@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 3 Mar 91 15:41:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb24.193610.28253@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
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jai@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Benchiao Jai) writes:
> Some hosts don't allow big files to go through, so here is a repost
> of the root file system.
This is how it should be done always :-(

The original article crashed my news package because it got an
'no space on device 1/0' (ramdisk). You see I have a ramdisk of 420k.
Your message came in 1 compressed batch of 92k. Unbatch unpacked it in
the ramdisk to a file of 160k. Unbatch then extracted the first (and only)
article from this batch in copied it in the ramdisk (2 x 160k). Unbatch
then passed this article to inews which again copied it in the ramdisk
(inews changes the header). So that would have been 3 x 160k is 480k.

Luckily unbatch doesn't remove the original batch anymore when it crashes
so I could repair everything by unmounting the ramdisk from /tmp so the
news package had the 2 Mb free space of the harddisk for its use.

Regards from Peter.


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