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Subject: Re: Stop^H^H^H^HRecofi^H^Hnfiguring tgo ^H^H^Ho gt^Hreater than 16Mbyte Tex^H^H^HProces ^Hs Text Segments
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 10:30:58 MET DST
From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr  1 18:18:02 1996
> From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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> Subject: Re: Stop^H^H^H^HRecofi^H^Hnfiguring tgo ^H^H^Ho gt^Hreater than 16Mbyte Tex^H^H^HProces ^Hs Text Segments
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>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> What's the magic to reconfigure FreeBSD 2.1 to support larger than
>> 16Mbyte Text Segments?
>
> stty erase 
>
> Just joking...

In case you don't understand Terry's joke, he's referring to the fact
that your message contained a lot of backspace characters (^H).
Depending on your mail reader, you may or may not see them.
For example, I see the first line above as:

  What's the maj^Hgic to reconfigure 2.^H^HFreeBSD 2.1 to support larger than

You should put the "stty erase ^H" somewhere in your shell startup
script (.profile or .cshrc, depending on the shell).

Greg