SCO 286 Xenix spell bombs

[Dave Hammond]

In article <2572 at viscous.sco.COM> uunet!sco!rosso (Ross Oliver) writes:
>[... spell has run out of data space. ...]  The quickest
>way to check this is to change your TERM environment variable from
>containing your entire termcap entry (usually several lines long) to
>be "/etc/termcap."  [...]

Ross means TERMCAP, not TERM.

It's usually sufficient to just `unset TERMCAP', since the termcap
library routines will default to /etc/termcap.

This trick also helps if you try to run a shell script under `ksh'
which contains lots of function definitions, and get `no memory'
(try running /etc/custom under ksh).

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Dave Hammond
daveh at marob.masa.com