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From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: ksh-e SYSV/AT Slow Start Up
Message-ID: <Jul.10.18.51.04.1989.7782@geneva.rutgers.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 89 22:51:07 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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To: wlr@beach.cis.ufl.edu


Ksh keeps a history file.  It keeps growing.  As far as I can see, ksh
never truncates the file.  It slows down linearly as the file grows.
You want to remove the file now and then.