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Article #915Re: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)
From: Marcel Weiher
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 22:51
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 22:51
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fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes: >My second attempt at posting this. Dunno if this is old news, but... Too bad you succeeded :-) >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. [... gives example of tex,latex, slitex ...] >/usr/bin/tex apparently looks at what command line command was used to >execute it to determine which .fmt file is loaded in. It does. >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! 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? :-) Marcel
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