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From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix 1.2 small problems
Message-ID: <11161@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 22:05:27 GMT
References: <4543@cup.portal.com> <192@ucrmath.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Summary: /tmp hardcoded into the shell

In article <192@ucrmath.UUCP> baumann@hope.UUCP (Michael Baumann) writes:
>In article <4543@cup.portal.com> Chuck_M_Grandgent@cup.portal.com writes:
>>2) I keep running out of room on /dev/ram when unpacking large shell
>>archives and linking large programs (am trying to get the UNIX
>>version of ARC going).
>
>As for the shell archives, I don't know.

The shell has the /tmp directory hard-coded into the source that deals with
'here' files.  grep for it.  A quick fix for you would be to change it to
put the temp file in '.' since you have a hard disk.  A better fix would be
to add a -T option to sh, to match cc and asld.  If you haven't already, you
may need to increase the data space for sh to handle some shar files.  I keep
a special version of sh around, 'unsh', that has been chmem'ed to 32k.

To Chuck: have you seen the post-1.2 (1.2a?) patch that allows the loading
of the ram disk from a hard disk partition?  Makes life easier.  You can also
change your /etc/rc to mount /usr on the hard disk, avioding the use of
floppies (after the boot and root load), even without any kernel patches.

						- Jaime

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