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From: bell@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: surf: mine's flakey too
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Date: 4 Nov 88 03:31:08 GMT
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In article <3f7240ce.5e37@dl5e37.engin.umich.edu> beh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Bob Hruska) writes:
>No, the binaries were just fine.  I was able to run surf just fine.  All 
>I did was raise the stack size to 20000.  This was on a 512K machine.

Would it be that hard to add a little routine to surf to check on stack size?
(I don't know,  this is a real question)  I'm also not familiar with surf,
but for any PA program that needs a large stack,  let's encourage the
authors to check that the stack is large enough.  If a program in
comp.sources.amiga needs a large stack and doesn't ask for it,  let Bob
know and perhaps he can get the author to add the checking.

The fewer GURUs, the better the public reaction to the Amiga...

>Bob Hruska   University of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN)



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