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Subject: SYSTEM 4.1 (15 meg sys file!)
Message-ID: <9938@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 08:40:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: decwrl.9938
Posted: Mon May 18 08:40:31 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 03:47:45 EDT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Hello,
 
   After doing everything needed to make sys 4.1 stable, I noticed that
my Jasmine 80 meg, which hovers around 22 meg free, wasd down to 7.7 meg free!
 
   I thought, 'oh know, the desktop is humongus...', but that is not the case.
I saw my System file is now 15.8meg!!!
 
   I took a new system 4.1 file (About 318k or so) and reloaded my DA's,Fkeys
and Fonts, which put it to 858k, which is right.  Then I went to update a
DA in my system called Tiler, with a new version (1.5).  I loaded it into
Font/Da mover (3.5) and clicked it, it showed Tiler is 11908 bytes, I said
to move it to the system and it 'crunched' for a bit and voila! 7.7meg has
been swallowed and I now have a 8 meg system file!  What is going on???  The
Font/DA mover 3.5 showed Tiler is 11908 bytes, why did it allocate 7.7 extra
meg???  
 
   Also, If you delete a Font or DA, is the space reclaimed in the system file?
 
   I think the above is a BIG BUG in the new FONT/DA mover.
 
 
Phil Hunt