From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 17:48:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EF316A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:48:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDFA43FBD for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAN1mLlg002533; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:48:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:47:33 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20031122.184733.32325352.imp@bsdimp.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20031123112720.J3301@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20031121010211.GD84421@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20031122.120100.16269141.imp@bsdimp.com> <20031123112720.J3301@gamplex.bde.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: bv@wjv.com cc: bms@spc.org cc: jhs@berklix.org cc: kientzle@acm.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:48:38 -0000 In message: <20031123112720.J3301@gamplex.bde.org> Bruce Evans writes: : On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: : : > In message: <20031121010211.GD84421@saboteur.dek.spc.org> : > Bruce M Simpson writes: : > : On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:31:10PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: : > : > * /rescue/vi is currently unusable if /usr is missing because : > : > the termcap database is in /usr. One possibility : > : > would be to build a couple of default termcap entries : > : > into ncurses or into vi. : > : : > : My suggested candidates are vt100 and cons25. The comconsole port installs : > : an /etc/ttys entry using vt100. This is also the default terminal type for : > : most dialup entries. : > : > Timing Solutions uses the following minimal termcap for its embedded : > applications. It has a number of terminals that it supports, while : > still being tiny. it is 3.5k in size, which was the goal ( < 4k block : > size we were using). One could SED this down by another 140 bytes or : > so. Removing the comments and the verbose names would net another 300 : > odd bytes. : : What's wrong with FreeBSD's /usr/src/etc/termcap.small, except it is : twice as large and has a weird selection of entries (zillions of : variants of cons25, dosansi and pc3). Mine is better because it has a more representative slice of currently used terminal types. Maybe we should replace termcap.small with mine (maybe with the copyright notice). Warner