linux install question

Timothy Reaves treaves at silverfields.com
Sat Jul 14 00:58:28 UTC 2001


On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:43:38 -0500
"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> By the way, Squeak changes files tend to be HUGE.  You would never want
> to source ("file-in") one completely.  Besides which, it is
> unfortunately impossible to do this automatically.  :(  (On the bright
> side, changes files are very simple and are very unlikely to get
> corrupted beyond repair).

	Thank you for such a compleate answer!  If the changes file is so large, what is done with it?  The last time I programmed Smalltalk was VW under OS/2, and was years ago.  When you received a chages file, you loaded in the entire thing.

	Thanks!




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