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From: garys@houxs.UUCP (#G.SEUBERT)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: What happened to the '-x' option of 'dcopy(1m)' ???
Message-ID: <248@houxs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 09:06:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 26 09:06:18 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Oct-84 03:35:52 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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The '-x' option of 'dcopy(1m)' was used to force executable programs
to be stored in contiguous blocks. This seemed desireable so we always
specified it in the past.

In System V Release 2 (and perhaps 5.0), the source still has the code
for the 'xflg' but the explanation for it being commented out reads:

 -x OPTION NO LONGER SUPPORTED - NO GOOD REASON FOR EXISTENCE

Am I missing something?  Is it just as efficient to have executables
split up around the disk? It scares me when code is just commented out
rather than the program being re-written.

Consistently confused by System V,

 Gary Seubert
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