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- From: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.172031.10284@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 17:20:31 GMT
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- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- My second attempt at posting this. Dunno if this is old news, but...
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- After installing amstex and amslatex on my NeXT, I discovered several
- additional files that were not needed. Namely duplicate copies of files
- that could easily be replaced with symbolic links.
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- In /usr/lib/tex/formats:
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- splain.fmt == slitex.fmt (576k)
- lplain.fmt == latex.fmt (496k)
- plain.fmt == tex.fmt (288k)
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- In /usr/bin:
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- latex == tex (184k)
- slitex == tex (184k)
- virtex == tex (184k)
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- /usr/bin/tex apparently looks at what command line command was used to
- execute it to determine which .fmt file is loaded in.
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- I've removed latex, slitex, virtex, splain.fmt, lplain.fmt, and plain.fmt,
- and replaced them with symbolic links, a total savings of 1912k, almost 2
- meg!
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- Does anyone else know of other such duplicate files that come with the 3.0
- packages?
-
- Michael Glenn
- fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
-