Re: [MacPerl] Installing on Users' Macs

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 9:34 +0000 12/5/98, Bart Lateur wrote:
> I have counted the number of files in MacPerl's Lib folder (not by
> hand!). I come at 575 files, bare install (5.20r4). The file content to
> disk space ratio is quite low, as many files are only a few k. This
> "waste" is part of the problem, as far as the uninformed user is
> concerned.

The "waste" goes way down for users of MacOS Extended (HFS+) volumes.  [Not 
as dramatically as for Claris Home Page, whose "nice" install (my term) has 
about 5 times as many files, mostly small.]

Unfortunately, that doesn't help all MacPerl installations...but it has 
certainly helped mine.  (Which includes MPW, with all ITS little files.)

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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