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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 15:48:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 15:48:36 1985
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This does seem to me like a perfect example of why dynamic linking is good.
My unix system has dynamically linked global libraries, and when I install
a new release of the system, I get all the latest C library code without
having to recompile or relink.  It also makes the binaries smaller.
Compare my /bin/date with one on another 68000 based unix system, but
without global libraries.  I bet you didn't know the date command carried
around so much baggage.

% ls -l /bin/date /yuban/bin/date
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root         5926 May  9  1985 /bin/date
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root        22528 May 13  1985 /yuban/bin/date