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- From: bugs@atlantis.uucp (Dan Berry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: stripping (was Ramdisk coming for NeXT)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.205249.27205@atlantis.uucp>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 20:52:49 GMT
- Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- In all the talk of the modifications to sdmach to increase the buffer size, I
- recalled a comment that someone had made:
-
- "If you want to save some space, try stripping sdmach [hah hah hah]"
- (paraphrased)
-
- Well, I thought he was joking. And yet, amazingly enough...
-
- atlantis> ls -l /sdmach
- -r-xr--r-- 2 root 708219 Aug 14 19:11 /sdmach*
- atlantis> ls -l /tmp/sdmach
- -rwxr--r-- 1 bugs 624388 Aug 22 14:32 /tmp/sdmach*
-
- *** YEESH! ALERT ***
- How can this be? And although I feel that the stripped version might work with
- no problems, _I_ ain't gonna be the one to try it out. It might work in the
- beginning, but I'd hate to have to deal with sporatic mach-kernel errors.
-
- --
- Dan Berry == President, NeXT Edmonton Owners Network / UofA Computers Tech.
- bugs%atlantis@cs.ualberta.ca (bugs@atlantis.uucp) *** NO NeXTmail! ***
- "On a first date, watch how your date treats the waiter, the bartender,
- and so on. That's how she'll be treating YOU after three months."
-