TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)

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From: Michael Glenn
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 17:20

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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?

Michael Glenn
fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (NeXTmail welcome)

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