Looking at Pathalias and Xenix

Chip Salzenberg chip at ateng.ateng.com
Tue Jan 10 04:42:50 AEST 1989


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.
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Chip Salzenberg             <chip at ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip>
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