Strange cache-ing (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)

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From: Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:41

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The two previous posts reminded me of the following strange behavior,
which for lack of a better word, I'll call "caching of NFS-fetched
files":
When I use TeXview (the pre 3.0 release posted to labrea.stanford.edu)
to view a dvi-file from my NFS-mounted workstation at the office on
my NeXT at home, the dvi-file persists somewhere (on the NEXT). 
That is if I edit the TeX file on the remote machine, re-TeX it, and
try either to reopen the dvi-file in TeXview or, even quit TeXview and
restart from scratch, I still see the old file (whereas if I run xdvi
remotely under co-Xist, the fresh file appears). 
What's worse, even dvips (This is dvips 5.490 Copyright 1986, 1992
Radical Eye Software) will print the old version of the dvi-file, not
the updated one. Is anyone aware where NeXT "caches" such
NFS-originating files?  Tom Rokicki assured me that it is not
TeXview which does the caching. 
And of course, this does not happen if the file is copied to a local
directory and reprocessed on the NeXT. 
--
Hardy 
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Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET

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Subject: Strange cache-ing (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
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