On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Matt Thomas wrote:

> 
> In  <Pine.SUN.3.91.960812131016.19268A-100000@world> , you wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Are there any size-limitations for those binaries loaded via MOP ??
> > >
> > Yes, I think it must be less that 2Gb :)
> > The only problem is that a MOP-image is larger that the original image
> > since the bss segment must exist in the MOP-image with all zeroed out.
> 
> That is untrue.  The BSS segment can stay "unallocated".  The mopd
> daemon should be able to interpet a.out images and manufacture the
> BSS pages on the fly.  That's what DECnet-ULTRIX and DECnet/OSI for
> UNIX mop daemons do.
It's not untrue if you want to be able to use the MOP-image on a VAX. But it
might be a good thing too learn mopd to support a.out directly. Thanks.
> 
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> 

-moj

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