Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: 1.4: library order solved, problems with more, helpfile Message-ID: <1987@ast.cs.vu.nl> Date: 31 Jan 89 13:36:13 GMT References: Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 22 In article hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: >I'm glad to see the real "more" finally on Minix. Unfortunately, >it is unacceptably slow, at least on my machine. I've gone back >to the old one. Try doing chmem =16000. That may work wonders. A lot of programs that use std, malloc, etc try to grab some buffer space with brk. If that fails they do everything one character at a time. Once notices the difference in performance. >It's great to have a full set of man pages. Unfortunately the file >was built with 80-character lines. 80 character lines cause an extra >blank line if you have enabled long lines in the console driver. No fair complaining. You were the one who wanted long lines! I just truncate them. Actually, the helpfile was not really meant as a helpfile. What I really did was update that part of the book where the man pages were. My original file is really troff input, full of weird typesetting stuff. I derived the helpfile by running it through nroff, and I didn't really pay attention to the line size. I suppose I should have, but since I truncate lines, I didn't notice the problem. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)