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From: witr@spooky.rwwa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ld.so failed
Date: 6 Sep 1995 15:22:31 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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     Nate Williams wrote in article <42idb0$b6k@helena.MT.net> :

>Such as?  

Such as *why* it failed.  I know one reason, and I assume there
are others.  Why the need for the cryptic message?  Oh Yeah...

>Remember, every byte added to the activator adds one byte to
>*every* single program in the entire tree.  Bytes add up fast when you
>are talking hundreds or programs.

If we added 1024 bytes and we had 1024 programs, it would add a 
whole Mb to the distribution.  Big deal.

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