Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: more startup time Message-ID: <1631@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 21:25:27 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1631 Posted: Fri Jan 27 21:25:27 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 13:37:58 EST References: <244@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 11 > It takes TIME to wade through all those definitions for all those > weird terminals that nobody uses. An 'optimization' would be to > move all the termcap entries for your common terminals to the > front of the file. More (and vi) should then startup noticeably faster. The "termcap" source directory on 4.xBSD contains a "reorder" script which does exactly this; the details are explained in a READ_ME file in that directory. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy