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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: error message
Message-ID: <492@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 10:56:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 10:56:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 18:05:31 EDT
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In article <278@ndmath.UUCP> dean@ndmath.UUCP (Dean Alvis) writes:
>
>I hope someone can help interpret the following error message
>	dosread: cannot execute
> All this took place on a 256K system under Minix 1.1.

The 256K system was not tested as thoroughly as the others.  I was not
really sure whether anyone really had 256K any more.  My guess is
that dosread was too big to fit into memory, so the exec failed.
On a 256K system, with any strange behavior, the first thing to think
about is not enough memory.  Try chmem to make dosread smaller.
But if you make it too small, it will exec, but not work properly.
It is tricky to get it right.  Sorry about that.
Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)