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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Don Chapman's format program
Message-ID: <10236@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 18 Jun 91 09:37:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.132446.12460@Arco.COM> dprrhb@inetg1.ARCO.COM (Reginald H. Beardsley) writes:
>
>  Has anyone gotten the format program posted by Andy on 6 June to work 
>properly.

I have used it several times with no problems.  Sometimes when things are
slow, try chmem to give the program a lot more stack space.  I think there
are some library routines that call malloc for space, and if there isn't
any, do all I/O one char at a time.  Please try this and post a short note
telling what happened.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)