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From: paradis@encore.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Problems unpacking shar archives
Message-ID: <1572@encore.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 12:22:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: encore.1572
Posted: Thu Apr 30 12:22:59 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 05:19:29 EDT
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Marlboro, MA
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If I get a shar archive from, say, net.sources and try to
unpack it under MINIX, /bin/sh complains: "Out of string space".
Has anyone else seen this problem?  Does /bin/sh do something
stupid like try to store ALL of the redirected input in memory?
Or are there styles of shar'ing that plain don't work?

   +----------------+  Jim Paradis                  linus--+
+--+-------------+  |  Encore Computer Corp.       necntc--|
|  | E N C O R E |  |  257 Cedar Hill St.           ihnp4--+-encore!paradis
|  +-------------+--+  Marlboro MA 01752           decvax--|
+----------------+     (617) 460-0500             talcott--+
You don't honestly think ENCORE is responsible for this??!!