Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!bunda From: bunda@cs.utexas.edu (John Bunda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: TeX and NFS Summary: mapped files Message-ID: <809@hedora.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 23:32:04 GMT References:Distribution: comp Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 19 In article , windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) writes: > > with NFS. I recently tried to put my metafont source files on a remotely > mounted directory and MF couldn't find them. I've also noticed that I > can't TeX a files that is remotely mounted. Does anyone know why? The reason for this that I have heard is that the TeX implementation uses mapped files, i.e. the file is treated directly as memory pages (reduces time for loading - the I/O is done on demand). Unfortunately, this requires these files to exist in a native fs. -John -- ...................................................... John Bunda METRIC Project Voice: (512) 471-9710 UT Austin CS Dept. Internet: bunda@cs.utexas.edu Austin, Texas 78712