Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!paul From: paul@uiucuxc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: /tmp and /usr/tmp - (nf) Message-ID: <6302@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 03:32:32 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6302 Posted: Wed Mar 21 03:32:32 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 07:07:15 EST Lines: 17 #R:amd70:-443200:uiucuxc:29300010:000:561 uiucuxc!paul Mar 20 23:20:00 1984 In regard to the /tmp /usr/tmp split: Back in the days of V6 on a PDP 11/50, /usr/tmp held the temp files for the C/A/T 8 phototypesetter. I think this was done for space reasons. Troff created rather large output files that would overflow /tmp (which was part of the root filesystem). Filling up the root was an unkind thing to do to V6 - but I loved V6 anyway. Paul Pomes uucp: {decvax,ihnp4,pur-ee,ucbvax}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!paul US Mail: Paul Pomes, University of Illinois 1304 W Springfield, Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-333-6262