Looking at Pathalias and Xenix

[Jonathan Bayer]

In article <1989Jan9.134250.27793 at ateng.ateng.com> chip at ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
=According to root at libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove):
=>chip at ateng.UUCP has modified pathalias v9 to run on SCO Xenix machines,
=>but unfortunately the map has grown to the point where even his extensive
=>and amazing modifications can't grow pathalias enough to swallow the map
=>as it is.
=
=My mods still work!  I'm using pathalias to this day on Xenix/286.
=
=>I think it hits the top of memory (my system has 2048K, with 1402K as
=>the maximum user process size) and tries to swap. Maybe it is a system bug.
=
=Well, I have 3.5M.  Perhaps that's it.

Funny.  I have pathalias working on a 2 meg machine.  It currently
takes about 10-15 minutes to chew on the maps, but it works fine. 
Perhaps it is the fact it is running on a 386 that makes it work.




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