Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:3970 news.software.b:4127 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews ported to V/AT? Message-ID: Date: 10 Feb 90 21:57:09 GMT References: <45@frau.UUCP> <3+1:A3-@splut.conmicro.com> <1990Feb8.182437.25095@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 26 In article <1990Feb8.182437.25095@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <3+1:A3-@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes: >>>Has anyone ported C-news to Microport V/AT? ... >>It's not simple. In particular, expire and relaynews need to be compiled >>in large model, or else they run out of memory... >I'm a bit surprised at that, as they do run on 16-bit machines, but this >is somewhat a function of things like how many groups you get. If your >active file is 28KB (like ours), this clearly raises storm warnings for >16-bit programs that want to keep it all in core. Well, they run...but they fail in the middle. Expire complains about running out of memory, sometimes saying that it's trying to read a line of history, sometimes not; relaynews simply fails mysteriously. My active file: -rw-rw-r-- 1 usenet news 20865 Feb 10 15:50 /usr/lib/news/active Not huge, but not trivial, either. Unfortunately, rebuilding just expire and relaynews in large model is such a pain that I haven't applied the January 1990 patches yet; I don't know if they'd fix the problem or not. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- Free the DC-10!