Re: Comments on 3.0 thus far

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From: Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:06

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In article <HARDY.92Sep27172432@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu I wrote:
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|   After reading about the malfunctioning of find under 3.0 I compiled 
|   gnu find3.7 to test it before I upgrade.  It autoconfigures and
|   compiles very easily and is much better than the old find, anyway.
|   I don't have 3.0 yet, but am ready ...
|   I could not live without updatedb, locate xargs, etc. 

One caveat: you may want to  edit the updatedb script to avoid scanning
any nfs mounted file systems; I did not at first, and ran out of disk
space during the sorting (after my swap file had become inflated). 
--
Hardy 
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Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET

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