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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:28:20 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/termcap
Message-ID:  <8664n79ubv.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <b8a404110602220814w70b970aem@mail.gmail.com> (Sergey Matveychuk's message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:14:00 %2B0300")
References:  <b8a404110602220814w70b970aem@mail.gmail.com>

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"Sergey Matveychuk" <sem@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Why /etc/termcap is moved to /usr/share/misc?

Historically because it is fairly large (200 kB for the raw file and
1300 kB for the db file).  However, I don't think this matters much
any more; we might as well install the file in /etc and the symlink in
/usr/share/misc instead of the other way around.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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