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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews on SCO UNIX.
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.103035.18912@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 7 Apr 91 10:30:35 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

> In article <29856@cs.yale.edu> fields-doug@cs.yale.edu (Doug Fields) writes:
> >About this "history.pag" file. Mine is beginning to get excessively large.

> You cannot get rid of it.  If you are using
> our dbz library -- you should be! -- then it is a small fraction of the
> size of the history file itself, and should not be that much of an
> additional space worry.

If he's used Microsoft 386 cc to compile dbz.c with -O, one symptom of
the fact that the regression test would fail is that the history.pag
file seems to grow without bound.  Perhaps that's the problem?
If so, then "Doug, why aren't you using gcc? :-)"

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