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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 384 megs of RAM
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:40:17 +0100
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In article <33C1BFCD.59E2B600@freebsd.org>,
	"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> [emailed and posted]
> 
> Phil Crown wrote:
>> Will FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE work with 384 megs of RAM?
> 
> Absolutely.  We're running it with 512MB of RAM in ftp.cdrom.com, in
> fact.
> 
>> I tried the MAXMEM=393216 option but it didn't work.
> 
> You sure you had it quoted correctly?  Here's the line we're using
> (pasted directly from ftp.cdrom.com's kernel config file):
> 
> options         "MAXMEM=524288"

I've been curious for a while, why the "" ?  Does config do something
smart with the "", 'cos if it doesn't, surely they don't matter unless
they're hiding something from the shell.

So I'd expect

options "special*chars"

and

options no-special-chars

Is this not the case ?

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !