netscape caches.

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

Received on Monday, 15 May 1995 22:41:34 UTC