/tmp and /usr/tmp - (nf)

[paul at uiucuxc.UUCP]

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uiucuxc!paul    Mar 20 23:20:00 1984

In regard to the /tmp /usr/tmp split:

Back in the days of V6 on a PDP 11/50, /usr/tmp held the temp files
for the C/A/T 8 phototypesetter.  I think this was done for space
reasons.  Troff created rather large output files that would overflow
/tmp (which was part of the root filesystem).  Filling up the root was
an unkind thing to do to V6 - but I loved V6 anyway.

         Paul Pomes

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