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From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DAT Hell
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:52:20 -0400
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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J Wunsch wrote:

> bump the
> 300000 to something that makes the operation safe for you.  Once you
> found it, multiply it by 2, and use /usr/bin/send-pr to submit your
> new value so we can integrate it into the driver.

But gee.  Isn't there some better way of doing this, like
a system variable or something?  Otherwise, why isn't
infinity a good value?  

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