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From: Glen <gippolit@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XTERM Problems
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 23:40:11 -0400
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You have to increase your child processes!!!

Look in you lint kernel I think it's something like 
CHILD=128 or something.


Michael Park wrote:
> 
> i am running freebsd 2.2.1 ,.
> X is running the afterstep wm.
> 
> when i have 7 or less xterm windows open, i can view all the man pages for
> anything i want.. however when i open an 8th xterm window, i can view some
> man pages but for most, i get the following error message.
> 
> Cannot fork
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> system command exited with status 512
> 
> has anyone else experienced this problem? if so does anyone know of a
> solution?
> 
> thanks..