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- From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Reducing size of X libraries, Ultrix 4.2 - How?
- Message-ID: <SIMON.92Nov18132433@liasg2.epfl.ch>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 12:24:33 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com's message of 17 Nov 92 21:31:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.213118.25793@decuac.dec.com>
- mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum AXP) writes:
-
- It just shrinks the disk space requirements for the library
- - your X programs will continue to be, well, X-ish in size, as long
- as you continue to run X.
-
- Small correction: as long as you want to run X on a system without
- shared libraries for X (such as Ultrix). Yes, I know shared libraries
- are bad, but for the many more or less useful X applications they are
- certainly a win.
-
- decstation% ls -l /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 475136 Jul 27 18:13 /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- sparc% ls -l /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 40960 Jan 26 1992 /usr/bin/X11/oclock
-
- (Btw. the first file is stripped, the second not.)
- --
- Simon.
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