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From: Uncle Flatline <flatline@gri.gallaudet.edu>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Compile my kernel
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote:

> > I saw an example that I liked better in LINT:
> > 
> > options        "MAXMEM=(128*1024)"
> > 
> > Saves me the math, and seems more intuitive.  (LINT used the quotes, but I
> > suspect they're unnecessary.  I assume that the paren's and asterisk will be
> > interpreted correctly without.) 
> 
> I thought math wasn't permitted in an option.  Does that actually spit out
> the right thing? 

I THOUGHT it did... What's the best way to check?  And if it DOESN'T do the
right thing, why have it in LINT, when

options    MAXMEM=131072     # 131072 = (128*1024) = 128M

would get the point across?  (This is why god invented comments.)  Or is this
another one of those things like having a chsh that drops unencrypted
passwords in the passwd file?  ;-) 

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