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From: jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix Upgrade Process
Message-ID: <2204@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>
Date: 14 Feb 89 21:01:58 GMT
Organization: Questar Data Systems; St. Paul, MN
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	I was wondering if anyone else has this problem, or if someone
	could tell me what basic point I'm missing...

	I was trying to run a shar file through sh on my Minix 1.2 (PC)
	system.  The shar file was about 90K, and there were 4
	source files shar'ed together.  After extracting 3 of the 4
	sh told me that it was out of memory and wouldn't extract
	the remainder (it just kept printing OUT OF MEMORY ON RAM
	DISK).  Then I pared down the shar file to under 50K and it
	worked fine.  Then I tried a 60K shar file with ALOT of 
	directories, sub directories and files in it and it extracted
	a majority of the shar file and quit with the message
	"can't do pipe - try again" which to me says that I had
	too many processes going.

	I'm trying to get the 1.3 archives I got from bugs to my home
	system, from where it is now (at work) without having to copy
	each directory and file to floppy seperately.  Tar won't work
	so I thought that 'makekit' which creates shar files would be
	my next best bet, but I'm having alot of trouble getting it
	to work.

	I've seen shar files posted that are > 100K so what's the story?
	Why won't my sh handle the larger shar files?

	Any help GREATLY appreciated.

	thanks
	-jeff-
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