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- I wonder why I haven't heard this complaint on the Net? I.e., I must
- be doing/did something wrong.
-
- Somewhat belatedly, I downloaded the issue of NeXT On Campus for summer
- from nova.cc.purdue.edu, i.e., the file OnCAmpus.ps.Z. It is about
- 2.4 MB long. To print it out, I first tried uncompress and -- after a
- longish time -- was informed I hadn't enough space on my disk to accept
- the uncompressed file. (My 330 MB hard disk is normally 86% full.)
-
- OK, somewhat later, I moved the .Z file to a nearly empty optical disk
- and tried the uncompress there. This eventually worked, but took, again,
- a surprisingly long time. In fact, there was a pop-up warning window that
- said I'd run out of space on my HARD disk and suggested that I destroy
- my deleted files. I did so, and it finally completed.
-
- The reason for the long time was that 2.4 MB expanded into over 50 MB!
- That is one wow of a compression scheme, I must say.
-
- OK, now try to print it out. "lpr OnCampus.ps" did work, but it took about
- an hour print out the 21 pages (!). (I'm not quite sure, 'cause I left to go
- to yet another group meeting dealing with ES&H issues.) Pleasant issue,
- NeXT On Campus, glad to have it.
-
- However, whatever I did still left me with my hard disk 100% full. And,
- I was unable to do anything more. Based on people's complaints about
- Mathematica and such, I surmised that my swap space had been grown to the
- max. So, I did a reboot, and this did indeed return my disk back to 86%
- usage (which is liveable). I checked this on logging in as root.
-
- Surprise! As I logged back in as myself, rather than root, I no longer
- came in with my dock of applications as usual. Only the Workspace
- Manager. Not much work to recover a dock, so I did that. However, on
- launching Communicae (one of my favorite utilities), that App could not
- find the default.cae file -- apparently also munged somewhere along the
- line. OK, no big deal, I can copy that out of another directory, and I did
- so. So now things SEEM to be working normally; I simply don't know if
- anything else in my directories (or on the disk) was zapped by this whole
- affair.
-
- It is hard to imagine that everything is quite right with OnCampus.ps.Z.
- I have had no such troubles downloading, uncompressing, and printing the
- Buzzings.ps.Z files. Anybody know what's going on here?
-
- Dick Silbar
-
-
- Article 7535 of comp.sys.next:
- >From: mvilla@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Marcelo Villacres)
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