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netscape caches.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Trautmann)
Fri May 19 08:28:34 1995
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 23:15:00 +0500
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From: Tim Trautmann <timt@ee.pdx.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
I am sorry if this is a faq OR the wrong place to ask but I haven't been able
to keep up with my mailing lists lately.
The majority of our students (including myself) use netscape for browsing.
This poses a slight delemma for us right now because netscape's private caches
are disk hawgs. At this point we are low (very low) on disk space on our
filesystems. Last time we did a find on the .netscape_cache directory, we were
able to weed out about 250 megs of space. YES we are buying more hard drives
for our fileservers, but being at a state university this takes time going
through all the red tape.
Anyways to make a long story even longer. Is there a way to globally set the
size of the personal netscape caches (maybe through a secret app-defaults
flag)? We are not running a proxy because of the above reasons, BUT if we did,
would netscape still use it's own caching mechanism or would it honor a
central proxy server as a cache?!
Thanks for all your answers in advance,
-- Tim
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Tim Trautmann | e-mail: timt@ee.pdx.edu
Portland State University | phone: (503)725-7056
Computer Action Team | http://www.cat.pdx.edu/~timt
