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Date:      Sat, 27 Jun 1998 19:51:02 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: comments in dot files
Message-ID:  <19980627195102.L23035@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980627190251.55632@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 07:02:51PM %2B1000
References:  <19980627190251.55632@welearn.com.au>

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On Saturday, 27 June 1998 at 19:02:51 +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> If I put a lot of comments in shell startup files like .bashrc, will that
> slow it down 

Yes, fractionally.

> or cause any other problems?

It will also take up more space.  Both concerns are relatively
unimportant unless your main machine is a 386SX/16 with 4 MB memory
and a 200 MB disk.

> And how come there's a /usr/local/share/skel but it's empty?

You haven't installed anything there yet.  /usr/local is for ports.

> (The goodies are in /usr/share/skel)

Right.

Greg
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