[41582] in Cypherpunks
Re: [NOISE] PGP out of RAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herb Sutter)
Mon Oct 16 09:36:03 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:41:02 -0400
To: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
From: Herb Sutter <herbs@interlog.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 07:35 10.16.1995 -0400, SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N wrote:
>It seems PGP has been too successful. I downloaded the entire keyring
>from keys.pgp.net; it's almost 9Mb of ASCII armour. However, I can't
>get PGP for DOS to process the files. It, understandably, gives me an
>Out Of Memory error. Is there any sneaky way of getting around this,
>barring the obvious switch to PGP for Linux? It seems PGP is constrained
>to the basic DOS 640Kb, or 704Kb if I remove my VGA card.
Use the 32-bit DOS version; that solves most memory problems. (Caveat: I
haven't tried rings that large myself, so if you're already using the 32-bit
version then I'm wrong.)
Herb
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