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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: more startup time
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 21:25:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 21:25:27 1984
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> 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