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- From: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Why is initial screen I/O so slow? (=NeWS!)
- Summary: Too true.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.211813.11857@noao.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 21:18:13 GMT
- References: <CKD.92Aug15180857@loiosh.eff.org> <1738@ernohb.UUCP> <CKD.92Aug17163152@loiosh.eff.org>
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- In article <CKD.92Aug17163152@loiosh.eff.org> you write:
- >TK> == thomas kendelbacher <token@ernohb.UUCP>
- >
- > TK> That spells out as "in order to speed up OpenWindows-3 startup,
- > TK> forget it and use something else instead ???"
- >
- >Precisely. Just as "in order to get sendmail to do the right thing,
- >junk the one Sun supplies and use something else instead."
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- Right on!
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- >
- >Or "in order to get NIS to deal properly with hostname resolution,
- >forget it and use something else instead."
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- What he said!!
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- >
- >I tend to have little patience for brain-damaged vendor software. :)
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- Not to mention the syslogd so old Chuck Babbage was porting it to his box,
- and the 'I live for the D-state' automounter...
- --
- Jim Davis | "Maybe I will get to use my right hook after all!"
- jdavis@noao.edu | -- Clarissa Darling
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