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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Security of NeXT systems
Message-ID: <1380@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 2 Mar 91 06:58:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.143720.7839@engage.enet.dec.com> <1376@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Mar1.014356.16867@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <1991Mar1.014356.16867@mp.cs.niu.edu>
	bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
>                               Running catman to pre-nroff all the
>man pages sounds nice, but takes a long time

Not on an '040 machine!!!  (I know...)

>                                             and *wastes* a lot of
>disk space.

Less than 3 megabytes.  That's noise.

Just getting rid of just the Guided Tour demo (if there's
anything only worth running once, this is it) saves more than
TWICE what ALL the formatted man pages take.

>             It is definitely a waste because on most systems the
>vast majority of man pages are *never* examined by any user.  Those
>pages that *are* examined get nroff'ed once when first needed and
>are available for quick access from then on.

...and molestation by abusive users.  What you do on your
personal machine is your business.  I'm in a University
environment--that's a bit more hostile.  If space is a problem, I
can NFS-mount from a machine where it isn't.

Also, my time's important to me.  catman will complete over a
lunch hour even on an '030 machine.  If I have to wait for a man
page while I'm working, it blows my concentration.
I want it NOW.

Did I mention reducing disk fragmentation?

(Before anyone asks, compressing man pages a la System V would
complicate things.)


[long list of permissions changes]

>     Good grid!!  Did NeXT *really* get *all* those permissions wrong???

Check for yourself.  I started on a fresh-out-of-the-box
recently-manufactured NextStation with software preinstalled on a
400MB internal drive.

					-=EPS=-