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From: russo@lanl.gov (Thomas Russo)
Subject: XV version 3.0
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Organization: Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Modeling Group, LANL, NM
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 15:59:33 GMT
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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...)

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Thomas Russo			russo@bogon.lanl.gov
Los Alamos National Lab, T-12, Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics
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