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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared libraries (was Re: Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing))
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.175847.21613@kithrup.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 91 17:58:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: kithrup.1991Apr25.175847.21613
References: <1991Apr19.005739.2321@servalan.uucp> <135@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
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In article <135@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>4M is small compared to the size of while X11R4 core. Moreover, binaries can
>be shared through network.

Using shared libraries dropped SCO's distribution from 60 or so floppies to
about 25 or 30 (they're compressed, as well; the actual floppy count is 13
or 15, I believe; I doubled for that previous estimate).

Want to tell me again that shared libraries are bad?

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