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From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Che' Flamingo)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Editing large files in MicroEmacs under SCO Xenix 2.2
Message-ID: <4204@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 15:24:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  9 15:24:46 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 06:03:24 EDT
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Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Che' Flamingo)
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Keywords: emacs xenix sysV large-file-compilation
Summary: It can be done...
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cs504aa@unm-la.UUCP (David Barts) writes:
>mdc@eddie.MIT.EDU (Martin Connor) writes:
>> 
>> I have successfully compiled MicroEmacs Version 38b under SCO Xenix
>> 2.2 as a medium model program.  It works pretty well.  I am however
>> unable to [edit] more than about 32K bytes at a time....
>
>Strange.  I have been having exactly the same problem with the
>same version under PC-DOS with Microsoft C Version 4.0.  I can't
>edit anything larger than about 20K without getting messages that
>EMACS can't allocate space.  Version 3.7j works (same compiler,
>same system) on much larger files.  This sounds like a bug
>(it better not be a feature :-) ) introduced somewhere between
>the two versions.  Has it been fixed in a later release?

I downloaded the executable (as well as the source; I _will_ buy a C compiler
some day :-) for v3.8b and it handles large files with no problem for me, up to
my memory limit. Perhaps there's a strange compiler flag or stacksize default
that you need to adjust?