From: cubexyz@gmail.com (Mark Longridge)
Subject: [TUHS] unix v5 limitations
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 10:37:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADxT5N4cYkw_p9n=_v02TexgkB2TKMKf+Dqgbzz_i79kB3tgyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Firstly, I should mention I'm using simh to simulate Unix version 5.
Well I tried to reorganize the files in unix v5. Mainly I wanted more
room on rk0 so I figured I'd create a new drive and put all the source
from /usr/source/s1 on it.
The first problem I had was I couldn't just cp over all the
/usr/source/s1 files to the new drive because of "Arg list too long"
so I figured I would just create an archive file called all.a which
would include all the files in /usr/source/s1 and copy that over.
But then I got "phase error" when I tried to keep adding files to the
archive (I had to do this in stages, e.g. ar r all.a /usr/source/s1/a*
then ar u all.a /usr/source/s1/b* etc). Phase error seemed to occur
when the archive got larger than around 160,000 bytes. So I ended up
creating 3 archive files to keep from getting "phase error".
I was wondering does anyone understand what the limits are for the cp
and ar commands?
Mark
next reply other threads:[~2014-08-09 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-09 14:37 Mark Longridge [this message]
2014-08-09 15:04 ` John Cowan
2014-08-09 15:32 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-10 23:05 ` Sven Mascheck
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