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From: wnp@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: swap
Keywords: /dev/swap
Message-ID: <8535@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 5 Jul 89 17:17:56 GMT
References: <368@trevan.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <368@trevan.UUCP> trevor@trevan.UUCP (trevor) writes:
>
>	The distribution Microport V/AT has a swap device witha major
>number of 1 and minor of 198. This is infact the mem device. I suspect
>that it is redundant as the swap devices are also contained in the dsk and
>rdsk directories.


I am not absolutely certain, but believe that this is related to the fact
that the Microport boot disk in releases 2.3 and later is WRITE-PROTECTED,
and there is therefore no real swap device in a floppy-rooted system.

I believe that this does get rectified on the hard disk by the "installit"
script.

As to your comment in your previous posting about cc -Ml requiring a space
between the 'M' and the 'l' (and likewise for -Ms) -- I have not observed
this in any of the releases and have been using Microport V/AT for three
years now.

Wolf
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