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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl Question
Keywords: address space
Message-ID: <4727@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 5 Apr 89 23:10:56 GMT
References: <658@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <658@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow) writes:
: I just recently acquired the Perl program posted to comp.sources.unix
: last year.  Everything compiled okay, but the test scripts don't work, I
: get a core dump.  The README file says that Perl probably won't work
: on machines with a small address space.  Now my question:  Just how small
: is small?  I have a SYSV.2 machine(68010 based) with 1.5M of physical memory 
: and a 3.0M virtual address space, is this sufficient?  Has anyone ran Perl
: on a similar machine?  Please let me know if you have.  Thanks

Small is something like a PDP-11, having only 128 K.  Perl should work fine
on your 68010.

It looks to me like you are simply running an unpatched perl.  You can ftp
the patches from jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.8.43), or I can mail them
to you.  Or you can ftp the patched kits.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov