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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!newshost.lanl.gov!russo From: russo@lanl.gov (Thomas Russo) Subject: XV version 3.0 Message-ID: <RUSSO.93Oct29085933@bogon.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Modeling Group, LANL, NM Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 15:59:33 GMT Lines: 31 Ok, I'm running this really old version of 386bsd (0.2.1 patchkit and XFree86 1.2!) but every time I think of upgrading I decide to put it off for a while because my current setup works Just Fine for me. Except right now. Does anybody have the XV image viewer/manipulator, version 3.0, compiled on a FreeBSD box WITH the tiff library installed? My version of 386bsd, with it's gccosaurus 1.39 chokes on the file tif_fax3.c because it runs out of virtual memory (I've got 8Mb of ram, 20Mb of swap) while reading the header file g3states.h, which contains some *huge* initializers. Is this something I can expect to gain from upgrading to FreeBSD and XFree86 1.3? Or is there a bug in the tiff libraries mkg3states program which causes it to generate wierdness? Or what? (I don't want to spark a discussion of all the other things I'd gain by upgrading right away. I'll upgrade, it's just a matter of when and to what version. Besides, I'm running a slightly crippled system; I don't have a tape backup, just floppies, so if I break my installation by upgrading to FreeBSD, I have to go back to the OLD 386bsd-0.1 distribution disks+patchkits... Ouch. Better to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous bugs...) -- -- Thomas Russo russo@bogon.lanl.gov Los Alamos National Lab, T-12, Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics *Opinions expressed are those of the author alone and do not represent *positions or policies of Los Alamos National Laboratory or the University *of California GS d--- -p+(*) c++ 3++ u+++ e+++ m++(*) s !n h--- f? !g w+ t+ N+++/+++ y?