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Article #3678Re: NS3.0 Info - ManPages target in Digital Librarian
From: Paul Verket
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:57
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:57
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Garance A. Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote: : I suspect there might be a benefit from the new structure. You could : replace the old directory with a link to the same directory on the 3.0 : CD-ROM drive (thus freeing up space on your hard disk), and yet the : *searches* from Digitial Librarian would still be looking and an index which : is on the hard disk, so they'd be just as fast. I haven't tried this idea, : though it seems plausible. I've done this, that is put in symbolic links to the CD for the documentation files while keeping the index files on the hard disk. It works quite snappily and saved a fair amount of disk space. Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!usc!venice!verket From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Subject: Re: NS3.0 Info - ManPages target in Digital Librarian Message-ID: <1992Oct2.185742.3628@venice.sedd.trw.com> Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News) Nntp-Posting-Host: venice Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 local 1 PL6] References: <rvmz8!b@rpi.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:57:42 GMT Lines: 13