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From: bmh@demon.siemens.com (Beatrice M Hwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Unusually large System file
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Date: 24 Jan 91 19:03:44 GMT
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In article <1035@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill) writes:
>A co-worker has a strange problem with her Mac IIcx; her System file has
>expanded to over 2 megs, making it difficult to do any work on her 4 meg
>total memory system.  This problem persisted even after we took off
>every init and unnecessary cdev we could, and even after we trashed the
>System file and installed a new one (6.0.7).  
>
>Any ideas would be most helpful.

Use the font/da mover and see how many fonts or da's are embedded in that
system file.  Fonts are notorious for eating up space.