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01-16-2002

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Neo is right in the Unix handles files completely different than DOS and Windows, and I tend to agree with him in that Unix filesystems don't normally need to be "defragged" however, I have, from years approximately 17 years of Unix experience, noticed that file rebuilds, access times, and the such tend to be quicker if files are in one contiguous length - ESPECIALLY if you have data files that in which a seperate index file is mainained. I think what one has to do is try for himself to determine if any performance is gained by "degragging" their Unix filesystems. Often what I find, is that what I personally may consider a performance gain and what steps I must undertake into gaining that performance gain generally does not warrant the effort.

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MACUTIL(1)						      General Commands Manual							MACUTIL(1)

NAME

       macutil - A package that deals with MacIntosh files on a Unix system

DESCRIPTION

       macutil	is  a package that contains a number of utilities that deal with MacIntosh files on a Unix system.  It contains the following pro-
       grams:

       binhex Convert files to BinHex 4.0 compatible hexified form.

       frommac
	      Receives files from the MacIntosh on the Unix system.

       hexbin Convert hexified files to their MacIntosh format.

       macsave
	      Save a series of files from a MacBinary stream as individual files.

       macstream
	      Combine a series of files to a MacBinary stream.

       macunpack
	      Unpack a MacIntosh archive into its constituents.

       tomac  Transmits files from the Unix system to a MacIntosh.

BUGS

       This manual page is hopelessly incomplete!

SEE ALSO

       binhex(1), frommac(1), hexbin(1), macsave(1), macstream(1), macunpack(1), tomac(1)

AUTHOR

       Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl)

3rd Berkeley Distribution					 October 22, 1992							MACUTIL(1)

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