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- From: gcagle@dracula.mentorg.com (Greg Cagle)
- Subject: Re: File questions
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:17:59 GMT
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- In article <l78vboINNb7p@pollux.usc.edu>, jdevlin@pollux.usc.edu (Joseph T. Devlin) writes:
- |> I was poking around trying to save some disk space here and
- |> there and ran across a couple of files I don't recognize (and
- |> which I didn't find documentation for in a cursory search.) I
- |> was wondering whether anyone could tell me what the following
- |> are?
- |>
- |> o All the files in /etc/audio. It was my understanding that
- |> the 730s (what I'm using) don't even have sound capabilities.
- |> Do I need any of these files? I certainly won't be using audio
- |> stuff.
-
- You can use /etc/rmfn to delete the AUDIO fileset to remove that
- stuff cleanly. You're right, you don't need that stuff on a 730.
-
- |> o What are files preceded by a hash? (ie /etc/#updist) In all
- |> cases that I found a file preceded by a single hash I found that
- |> I had a file of the same name minus the hash. Do I need both? I
- |> know that emacs stores buffers as #<buffer>#.
-
- Those are old files that got replaced by newer versions at some point.
- You may safely get rid of them.
-
- |> o The files in /usr/lib/veedemo. I couldn't figure out what this
- |> is.
-
- It's a demo of HP-VEE. You can get rid of it (unless you like demos).
- Use /etc/rmfn to get rid of VEEDEMO-HELP and VEEDEMO-MAIN.
-
- |> I'd love to free up the space these are taking but will deleting
- |> them cause me unforseen problems? Are there other things that HP
- |> provided initially that folks commonly remove for space reasons?
- |> One other thing, I heard HP provides a CD with the man pages
- |> available on it to free up that space. Is there any truth to this?
-
- You're probably talking about LaserROM; it not only has man pages but
- the (almost) full documentation set.
-
- - Greg
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