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From: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff)
Subject: Re: Great Expectation
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 19:51:32 GMT
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In article JmcZFc1w165w@oasys.pc.my, othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad) writes:
> 386 BSD and Linux which comes with sources codes, can be configured to be any
> size you want it to be.
> 	FreeBSD uses more memory because it has extras in its kernel, like
> DOS file system, which I do not like,
> 	because mtools can substitute it nicely.

So take `options PCFS' out of your FreeBSD kernel configuration file
and build a new kernel.

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