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Re: afs vs. tex

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Pawliger)
Thu Aug 29 18:33:23 1991

From: marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger)
To: info-afs@transarc.com
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 15:21:05 PDT

TeX (on the '6000 at least) memory maps files with shmat(2).  Since AFS 3.X
doesn't support memory mapped files, TeX fails.

The workaround is to have all the files on local disk.

--marc
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