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TSI@cup.portal.com writes:

>I have installed the binaries from the recent posting of AmigaUUCP 1.03D and h
>have run into a problem. I have been running an old version of AmigaUUCP for
>several months with success so have had some experience with it.

>The problem is that when uuxqt runs to process news work files it immediately
>reports cannot load rnews: insufficient free store. I get this even though I 
>have as much as 800K free. My newsfeed is not in compressed form. 

I have observed this too! In Matt Dillon's documentation somewhere, he
mentions that rnews takes an enormous amount of memory. I have NOT been able
to get uuxqt to work on my one meg machine. When using the Francis 4 meg
expansion (which can be flakey, hence trying to run without it for reliable
unattended operation), uuxqt works just fine. I think I managed to get free
memory up to the 800k level and it didn't work. When running on the Francis,
it does take at least 650K for extended periods. I can't account for the
extra, but know it actually needs at least > 800K free to work. Educated
guess: maybe it needs a CONTIGUOUS 650K block. If you have 512K chip and
512K fast ram as I do minus Francis, the largest possible block is something
less than 512K. It would be interesting to find out if it works on a 1 meg
chip ram machine.

>Does anyone know a solution???!!!

1) more memory
2) wait for Matt or others to hack on code since he knows it's memory hungry
3) hack it yourself since source is provided.
4) get rid of EVERYTHING possible to free ram: EG: disconnect any extra
   floppy drives and autoconfig peripherals. If using a hard-drive, you may
   have to disconnect it and use floppies to free the driver/buffer memory.
   run an absolute minimum of stuff in startup-sequence eg: don't make
   things like shell-seg resident, do a loadwb or addbuffers to any drives.

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