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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Replicating system.
To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:25:46 -0600 (CST)
Cc: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199501041934.VAA08391@grunt.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Jan 4, 95 09:34:18 pm
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> OK - this short-circuits the tape out of the loop. What happens to files
> with multiple links - major waste of disk space? 

They get recreated with multiple links.

> Good to know. What is this anyway? (Iknow, the name says it all, but I
> cannot fit it into the lpd/lpr/printcap scheme. If its in the man
> pages, I'll bloody shoot myself...)

/var/run/printer is used to talk to lpd.