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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.5.0 upgrade
Message-ID: <18506@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 90 00:08:38 GMT
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Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
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In article <12333@cbnewse.ATT.COM> fredriks@cbnewse.ATT.COM (lars.fredriksen,ih,) writes:
>I have a couple of questions rerding 1.5.0 ugrade. I 
>ran into the same problem that Gln mentioned arlier with running out of space
>n /tmp while running patch on fsck.c and ed.c; however I also gota ssage
>saying that patch is out of memory while trying to patch more.c nd ls.c.
>I have n XT wth 64K, and have set patch memory size to maximum (it tursbe 
>about 55Kfor sck and mem). Have anyone sen this before? 

I had problems with patch running out of space on a couple files.  It
turned out that the cdif's were actually composed of just a few really
big blocks.  It wasn't too hard to construct the 1.5 version by hand.
I cut off the first two bytes of each line in the cdif with sed and then
used mined to extract the little pieces of the 1.3 file that didn't
change and merge them in.  It took a bit of care, but I had no trouble
getting files that matched the 1.5 crc's on the first try.  

These kinds of problems will go away when we have a proper 386 version
of Minix.  The only reason to envy our brethren running Minix on 680x0
platforms is their big linear address space.  :-)  And with complete 386
machines now selling for <$1500, everyone will upgrade, right?  :-) :-)

Paul Allen

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