From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: hacknews Title: sort tempfiles moved Article-I.D.: utzoo.2796 Posted: Fri Feb 4 17:31:33 1983 Received: Fri Feb 4 17:31:33 1983 Changed sort(1) to prefer to put its tempfiles in /tmp rather than /usr/tmp. Under at least some conditions, this produces a substantial performance improvement: /tmp is down with root and the /zoo inode area, while /usr/tmp is way up at the top of the disk.