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Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews on SCO UNIX.
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.081929.6788@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 08:19:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.231914.26740@lunatix.uucp> <1991Apr02.032343.4830@xstor.com> <29856@cs.yale.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <29856@cs.yale.edu> fields-doug@cs.yale.edu (Doug Fields) writes:
>About this "history.pag" file. Mine is beginning to get excessively large.
>It's around one meg right now. How do I get it smaller. What is it? Can I
>delete it?

It's an index into the history file.  You cannot make it smaller except
by keeping less history.  You cannot get rid of it.  If you are using
our dbz library -- you should be! -- then it is a small fraction of the
size of the history file itself, and should not be that much of an
additional space worry.
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