more startup time

Guy Harris guy at rlgvax.UUCP
Sat Jan 28 12:25:27 AEST 1984


> It takes TIME to wade through all those definitions for all those
> weird terminals that nobody uses.  An 'optimization' would be to
> move all the termcap entries for your common terminals to the
> front of the file.  More (and vi) should then startup noticeably faster.

The "termcap" source directory on 4.xBSD contains a "reorder" script which
does exactly this; the details are explained in a READ_ME file in that
directory.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy



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