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- From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Subject: Re: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)
- References: <1992Nov7.172031.10284@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:45:36 GMT
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- Michael Glenn writes
- ->
- -> My second attempt at posting this. Dunno if this is old news, but...
- ->
- -> 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)
- ->
- -> In /usr/bin:
- ->
- -> latex == tex (184k)
- -> slitex == tex (184k)
- -> virtex == tex (184k)
- ->
- -> /usr/bin/tex apparently looks at what command line command was used to
- -> execute it to determine which .fmt file is loaded in.
- ->
- -> 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!
- ->
- -> Does anyone else know of other such duplicate files that come with the 3.0
- -> packages?
-
- Hmm, well, I looked and all of these files are already links! Jost not symbolic
- links vs hard links!
- There is no disk space savings.
-
- if you had not blown them away ;-) you could do an ls -i /usr/bin/*tex and see
- that they all pointed to the same inode...the same is true of the formats
- files.
-
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