Webster CompactDictionary

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2 total messages Started by David Kelman Fri, 08 Jan 1993 04:55

#1765

Author: David Kelman
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 04:55

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	While looking through the files on NS 3.0, which I finally received
Tuesday after a five month wait, I noticed that in Webster's there is both a
CompactDictionary and a Dictionary.  The Compact is 13.6 Meg, while
Dictionary is 20.3 Meg.  Are both necessary, or can I delete the compact and
free up a lot of space?

David Kelman


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Re: Webster CompactDictionary

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Author: Matthew Dillon
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 02:09

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In article <1993Jan8.045521.5089@samba.oit.unc.edu> David.Kelman@launchpad.unc.edu (David Kelman) writes:
>	While looking through the files on NS 3.0, which I finally received
>Tuesday after a five month wait, I noticed that in Webster's there is both a
>CompactDictionary and a Dictionary.  The Compact is 13.6 Meg, while
>Dictionary is 20.3 Meg.  Are both necessary, or can I delete the compact and
>free up a lot of space?
>
>David Kelman

    One interesting thing I did was simply remove The dictionary,
    quotations, and literature directories entirely, replacing them with
    softlinks to the CDRom.  Works great, though of course you must have
    the CDRom in if you want to access them.

    I'm somewhat disappointed that the NeXT CDRom drive doesn't spin-down
    an idle drive, though, it makes for totally unecessary wear.

					-Matt

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