486 box with 20 Mbyte RAM vs. Coherent 3.2
Bob Hemedinger
versions of 4.0 and we will make it available on mwcbbs and cohware Vol3.
I'll warn users of comb now that the mailbox format of 4.0 has been
changed to use SCO's MMDF format (message begin and end with 4 ctrl-A's).
Comb will most likely not handle this. I doubt that pcmail will also
get along with the changed format.
> When running Elm memory sizes are:
> Text 273568
> Data 196608
> Stack 40960
A 'size' of elm on Coherent 4.0 (beta) shows: 135488+51288+61024
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>I'll warn users of comb now that the mailbox format of 4.0 has been
>changed to use SCO's MMDF format (message begin and end with 4 ctrl-A's).
>Comb will most likely not handle this. I doubt that pcmail will also
>get along with the changed format.
Have you tried to port mmdf2 to Coherent yet?
We're a big MMDF site here and I've been wondering if that'll work on
Coherent instead of Smail2.5...
bill
Bob Hemedinger
>
> We're a big MMDF site here and I've been wondering if that'll work on
> Coherent instead of Smail2.5...
No, we haven't tried mmdf2. The reason for the format change was to accomodate
elm (we could have converted elm to use our 3.x.x format, but we want to be
as systemV-ish without going overboard as possible).
Lanfranco Albani
:A 'size' of elm on Coherent 4.0 (beta) shows: 135488+51288+61024
Have any problem porting Elm under Coherent?
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> I'll warn users of comb now that the mailbox format of 4.0 has been
> changed to use SCO's MMDF format (message begin and end with 4 ctrl-A's).
> Comb will most likely not handle this. I doubt that pcmail will also
> get along with the changed format.
A minor fix to Comb 1.32 should keep it happy, it already speaks the current
3.2 format of two ctrl-A's so doubling that to 4 shouldn't be difficult.
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Bob Hemedinger
There were a few problems, but they were due to the fact that when elm was
ported, 4.0 wasn't much more than a 32 bit version of 3.2, with some
binary compatibility with character based coff binaries. Since then,
4.0 has developed to the point where the problems wouldn't exist if a
fresh port were done today.
Rick Kelly
>> Have you tried to port mmdf2 to Coherent yet?
>>
>> We're a big MMDF site here and I've been wondering if that'll work on
>> Coherent instead of Smail2.5...
>
>No, we haven't tried mmdf2. The reason for the format change was to accomodate
>elm (we could have converted elm to use our 3.x.x format, but we want to be
>as systemV-ish without going overboard as possible).
Stick with smail 2.5. It is easier to deal with than mmdf2. When Coherent
gets networking support, smail 3.1 will do the job.
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Bill Pechter
>In article <920707112...@dalek.mwc.com> "Coherent operating system" <COHE...@indycms.bitnet> writes:
>>No, we haven't tried mmdf2. The reason for the format change was to accomodate
>>elm (we could have converted elm to use our 3.x.x format, but we want to be
>>as systemV-ish without going overboard as possible).
>
>Stick with smail 2.5. It is easier to deal with than mmdf2. When Coherent
>gets networking support, smail 3.1 will do the job.
No, if you want to be System Vish use the standard From line. The ^A stuff
is an MMDFism not System Vism. The ^A stuff was a large pain in the A##
here when we put MMDF2 up. The elm mods to support it were hacked and tested
here. Better to be straight SysV and skip the ^A stuff entirely.
The 2 lines of 4 ^A's is totally an MMDF hack and shouldn't be propagated
into Coherent unless you're going to port the MMDF too...
Bill
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