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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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