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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: "blaming Unix SendMail"
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Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 00:41:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 00:41:20 1984
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	Why does sendmail (or the termcap library, or anything else
	in Unixland for that matter) have to parse a rarely-changing
	text file every time it is started?

Check out the following
	/usr/lib/sendmail -bz
This creates a binary file for quick startup.

Termcap is being replaced by terminfo, which also uses binary files.

So of course it doesn't have to.  But it's great for prototyping when
the first stab is in a text format.

	Mark