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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Experiences with the NeXT Station 105 and More
Keywords: swapfile, tex, dsp, floppy, boot, space, modem, speed, kernel
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.164445.20029@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 1 Jan 91 16:44:45 GMT
References: <1990Dec27.082848.10036@wuphys.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <1990Dec27.082848.10036@wuphys.wustl.edu> rdd@wuphys.UUCP (Rakhal D. Dave) writes:
>Here is some information I have collected over the past 10 days after receiving 
>                         NOTES ON MAKING SPACE
>1. If you are not going to use an Optical drive you can safely get rid of 
>/odmach. Remember if you ever need it that odmach and sdmach are the same 
>binary files (do a diff to confirm that) and so you can make odmach from sdmach 
>when required. 

Is there any reason why these two files exist as separate files rather
than links to a common file?  I don't have my cube yet, but on my SysV
system at work, unix is linked to unix.g.  I can boot from either if I
really want to do so.
-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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