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From: Boyd Roberts boyd@fra...
Subject: [9fans] Re: fcall in your kernel
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:10:19 +0100

    >                                                   Got the 4 diskette
    >set from bell-labs with sept 97 date, and find that disk 2 will not
    >unpack.  It kept hanging with ``Unpacking archive'' or equivalent
    >on the screen.

isn't that symptomatic of the vdexpand pipeline eating all the ram?
it bit me when i had some marginal configuration.  i pulled the script
apart and ran it by hand using temporary files.  not pretty, but it worked.