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From: bunda@cs.utexas.edu (John Bunda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: TeX and NFS
Summary: mapped files
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Date: 16 Aug 89 23:32:04 GMT
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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


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