Re: How do you expand buffers?

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From: Thomas Funke
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 16:51

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In article <1992Sep24.141806.24542@hamblin.math.byu.edu>  
bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) writes:
> 
> A kind soul at NeXT pointed out to me that you can set up your machine
> to boot with any (well, within reason) number of buffers.  In the ROM
> monitor type   p  <return>  and when it says  boot device (or something
> like that)  type sd- nbuf=64,  or whatever number of buffers you want,
> cycle through the preferences till you get the >Next prompt again and
> type "b".  So, is "more" always better here??  Of course, if you're
> not booting from your local hard disk, adjust accordingly.

Good hack! But still I can only install 99 Buffers, because that !@#$$  
command-line is limited to 11 characters only.

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