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Date:      Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:47:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, token@wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: REQ: help from Emacs/XEmacs/Jove/Jed/... users
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970614144539.14699C-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199706100755.RAA06309@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Narvi stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > It's too big.  This was the original complaint, and it hasn't gotten
> > > any smaller since.  Zile sounds pretty good by comparison.
> > 
> > Two big?
> > 
> > # ll /usr/local/bin/pico
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  12288 Apr 24 10:35 /usr/local/bin/pico
> 
> That's the stub.  Add the shared library.
> 
> > Yes, pico does make use of a 160K shared library, but it shares it with
> > pilot (a kind of file browser) and pine. Besides, I am not very sure,
> > whetever pico needs everything that is in /usr/local/lib/pico, most
> > probably a libpicolite could be made that contained only the functions
> > needed and used by pico.
> 
> ... which is what I suggested to Chuck, and he is now pursuing.

Bad news: pilot adds almost no extra functions, so removing pilot doesn't
gain us anything.  libpico.so.1.3 still about 160K.

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