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From: jsilva@cogsci.berkeley.edu (John Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: pathalias on sco xenix, problem
Keywords: pathalias,sco,xenix,problem
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Date: 22 Jul 88 02:38:48 GMT
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I had a similar problem with pathalias on my SCO V2.2.0g based 286 system.

What hacking the *program* told me was 'out of memory', was in fact an
*out of stack space* error.  I increased pathalias' stack to something like
5000, and haven't had a problem since.  Be aware that pathalias uses a 
recursive algorithm to generate the paths database.  The stack overflow
comes from the recursion being too many levels deep on a large path database.

John P. Silva
Inova Products
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