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- From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer)
- Subject: Re: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.210306.22436@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <1992Nov7.172031.10284@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:03:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.172031.10284@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >In /usr/lib/tex/formats:
- >
- >splain.fmt == slitex.fmt (576k)
- >lplain.fmt == latex.fmt (496k)
- >plain.fmt == tex.fmt (288k)
-
- You actually lost some disk space by doing this. All of the files you
- replaced with symbolic links were in fact hard links. If you'd done
- an "ls -i", you would have seen that all the duplicate files share the
- same inode.
-
- BTW, the same is true of /sdmach and /odmach.
-
- Dave
-
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