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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: "too big" error message under Xenix
Message-ID: <8333@alice.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 20:33:57 GMT
References: <3700006@eecs.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <3700006@eecs.nwu.edu> skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) writes:
>Just a simple question here.  I'm trying to get Micro Gnu Emacs to work
>under 286 Xenix 2.0.4.  It compiles fine and makes a 67K executable.  When
>I try to run it, however, it says "mg: too big"...

"too big" could mean that the program is too big (you should try "size" too
find out how big it is on startup, not ls -l), but it can also mean that
you tried to put more than 64k in one segment, without the loader noticing.
(this is possible because the loader does not take the stack into account)

Paul.
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