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29 May
2009
29 May
'09
7:40 p.m.
An interesting note from DEL on a related prolem :
[ dek: I think the strings are also needed for font file names. For ordinary input files I put the special code into \S537 [which CET1 disabled] so that the Math Reviews could input lots of files. Of course there's a workaround (using the operating system to concatenate files!) but otherwise all I can suggest is a local change-file routine that tries to reclaim string space when closing files if the unneeded strings are still at the end of the string pool. You could introduce a new array indexed by 1..max_in_open to keep relevant status information if it isn't already present (see \S304). ]