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From: gerloff@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Gerloff)
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Subject: Re: On 16b-compress
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Date: 27 May 91 13:40:20 GMT
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In article <54610@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, D1FRCMV0%EB0UB011.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (George A Reiss) writes:
|> Hello,
|> Just a short question. It is possible to have 16 bit compress on a
|> i286.
|> 
|> I tried to compile the source code (compress.c) with the flag
|> 
|>       -DAZTECBITS=16
|> 
|> But when i try to uncompress some 16b *.Z file it doesn't work at all.
|> Thank you for the answers.
|> 
|>               George A Reiss. D1FRCMV0@eb0ub011.bitnet

Hello George!
You can't use compress with 16 bits on an i286 because of the braindamaged
architecture. compress need's about 400 KB with 16 bit and a normal Minix
process gets only 64 KB code and 64 KB data. You need a i386 and the 
modifikations for Minix, or a Motorola based machine :-).

Greetings, Olaf
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