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From: paul@nessus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: compress 4.0 running under SystemV/AT
Message-ID: <68@nessus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 18:32:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: nessus.68
Posted: Wed May 20 18:32:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 13:48:53 EDT
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Keywords: System V release 2, brain dead 80286 & compiler, Xenix works?

I have a question about compress -- running version 4.0 r1.1 86/10/21

Help,
  I'm trying to get compress to run on my AT under SVR2.  The problem is
  that I am stuck with the same problem Xenix people have -- the damned
  compiler won't create array's > 65536 bytes (thank's intel ..grrr).

I tried compiling with the following flags:
	BITS=16
	M_XENIX (breaks array's into little pieces)

Doing a compress/decompress with bits <= 12 seems to work ok.  Uncompressing
a file (bits=16) that was compressed on another machine barfs.  I ran
compress on my vax (under VMS) and it works beatifully.

Q1:	Does it >really< work under Xenix?  If so, why would SysV break it?

Q2:	If it doesn't work under Xenix (as is), has someone already fixed
	it?

Q3:	Simply: Does anyone have a working compress that runs under
	Microport's SystemV/AT port?

Thanks very much.


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