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Article #723Re: MS-DOS Version of diff Exhausts Memory
From: George Jetson
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 15:58
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 15:58
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In article <87kn3yb.westes@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes: >Using the MS-DOS version of diff 1.15, I occasionally get an error >message reporting that memory has been exhausted (this on a machine that >has 15 megs of extended memory). Do other users of the >MS-DOS version get the same error? Can someone point me to an ftp site >for a version of diff that has been made to work with VCPI, DPMI, or EMS >under MS-DOS? This tells us nothing about which specific version of diff you are using. Who is it from? Who compiled it? Which compiler? etc. Anyway, get the DIFF that comes with DJGPP. It seems to have no memory limits. ************************************************************************ A note to new readers: the weasely :-) symbol is frowned upon in this group. Any questions, see Phil Gustafson who will gladly rearrange your diodes for you. - From the AFU FAQ - - pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts - ************************************************************************
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!ai-lab!prep.ai.mit.edu!gnulists From: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: MS-DOS Version of diff Exhausts Memory Message-ID: <1992Sep3.155835.10175@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 3 Sep 92 15:58:35 GMT References: <87kn3yb.westes@netcom.com> Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu Followup-To: gnu.utils.bug,comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates Lines: 22 Approved: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu Apparently-To: <gnu-utils-bug@ncar.ucar.edu>