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- From: marcel@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
- Subject: Re: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.225124.20183@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1992Nov7.172031.10284@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:51:24 GMT
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- fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:
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- >My second attempt at posting this. Dunno if this is old news, but...
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- Too bad you succeeded :-)
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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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- [... gives example of tex,latex, slitex ...]
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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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- It does.
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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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- Oh the joys of UNIX! In the original distribution they are HARD LINKS,
- meaning several directory entries referring to the same inode (actual
- file data). How about a good introductory UNIX text? :-)
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- Marcel
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