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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.5 Demo disk broken ?
Keywords: mined pipes scripts
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Date: 31 Mar 91 19:02:49 GMT
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In article <25289@hydra.gatech.EDU> jb107@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes:
>Is the demo disk (deliberately ?) crippled, or does minix work this way
>too? I'm on a 12 Mhz AT clone w/512K, and I'm trying some simple things
>right out of the demo manual:
>
>1) mined doesn't work unless you type 'exec mined' at the keyboard

I have never heard anything like that before.  I suspect you are trying this
on a machine with only a tiny bit of memory.  If mined runs with exec
but not otherwise, you are within one shell of fitting into memory.  That
means something is radically wrong.  Try the demo on a machine with 512K.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)