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> Hmm.  You would probably be best off making it work by 
> mmaping chunks of a data file at a time.

Doing "all that mmap stuff" is what I hoped I could avoid by throwing
some $$$$ at a 64-bit machine, and using swap "gently". So HP's new,
affordable PA-8700 machines look(ed) terrific. 

> Supporting >4GB of physical ram, which can be shared among 
> multiple processes, each being <4GB in size :-)

I know, I know, just having a whinge ;)
 
> gcc works fine on hpux...

Hmm.

	Duraid