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From: ckd@loiosh.kei.com (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.0, sendmail v8.6.9 & newaliases
Date: 16 Feb 1995 03:32:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu's message of 16 Feb 1995 00:26:23 GMT
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CO> == Clint Olsen <olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu>

 CO> I was checking the manpage and I noticed that 8.6.9 doesn't have an
 CO> option for freeze configuration files.  Is this supported?  I recall
 CO> that this was a real problem on Sun sendmail.

Freeze files are dead.  They were really useful if your disks were far
faster than your CPU, say, on a VAX 11/750, and you didn't have shared
libraries or anything like that.

They're worse than useless on modern systems, and they've therefore gone
away, as they should have. ;-)
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