From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 27 03:21:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22838 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 03:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA22819 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 03:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA23791; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 19:51:02 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980627195102.L23035@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 19:51:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comments in dot files References: <19980627190251.55632@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980627190251.55632@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 07:02:51PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 June 1998 at 19:02:51 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > If I put a lot of comments in shell startup files like .bashrc, will that > slow it down Yes, fractionally. > or cause any other problems? It will also take up more space. Both concerns are relatively unimportant unless your main machine is a 386SX/16 with 4 MB memory and a 200 MB disk. > And how come there's a /usr/local/share/skel but it's empty? You haven't installed anything there yet. /usr/local is for ports. > (The goodies are in /usr/share/skel) Right. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message