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From: krishna@athena.mit.edu (             ???)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: getting sys$login:.emacs loaded
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 19:58:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 19:58:58 1987
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Keywords: vms init file .emacs
Summary: HELP!  SOMEONE HELP ME!

AAAiiiieeee!!!
1.  my 3B2/400 (and the other one I have been able to access) cannot cat into
or cat (as in display) files more than 1048576 bytes, or even cp this many.

2. (what does this have to do with emacs?)  Aha, what does this have
to do with emacs, you might ask.  Well, the tarred, compressed file is
3357174 bytes long (or something like that) and therefore will not
copy anywhere you might want to put it on the 3B2.  The only to get it
around is to ftp it (i.e., you have to ftp it to the 3B2 from the
source, then ftp it within the 3B2 to put it into another directory.)

3.  uncompress, zcat don't work on a file this big on a 3B2/400, as
you might expect from the 1048576 byte limit on regular cat or cp.
(yeah, so, why don't you just copy the files one by one?)

4. Main point:  since the executable emacs is 1.5 meg, I am now
deathly afraid that 3 nights of staying up till 2 am trying to get the
damn thing going will end up in me having all the files, trying to
build emacs, and having Mr. 3B2 tell me that it can't build a file
this big, and me putting the 3B2 under my feet and jumping out the 2nd
story window.
The person who said that you have emacs up and working, does your
machine have a limit on the number of bytes (i.e., 1.04 meg) that can
be xferred around the filesystem?  I.e., if you try to

cat >> < 1048576 byte file>
foo bar etc lisp info cpp shortname gnu gdb gas buzz argh
^D

it returns
cat: cannot write  (-1/4 bytes written)
or something of the sort
?
and what files are unpacked when emacs is untarred?
the edist.tar.Z file I xferred to a bigger mainframe and untarred
gave me a directory checksum or some other sort of error at
dist-18.47/lisp/abbrev.elc
and quit.

(if (eq receiving-help t)
     (breathe sigh-of-relief)
     (die horrible-unpleasant-death))

Krishna Sethuraman
krishna@cemux1.cem.msu.edu  <-- the 3B2 I'm trying to get it on.