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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Upgrades
Message-ID: <52945@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 02:30:57 GMT
References: <52814@apple.Apple.COM> <FRANCIS.91May14232330@arthur.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <FRANCIS.91May14232330@arthur.uchicago.edu> francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
>*WHY* does it take so much space?

  Most of that space is due to the icons in the alias file.  The actual alias
record is only a few hundred bytes at most.

  -- Dean Yu
     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     My opinions and so on and so forth...