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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 2000 20:38:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h print.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006042034430.57637-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000604125635.A33702@atdot.dotat.org>

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On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Mark Newton wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 03:08:26PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
>  > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  281816 Jun  3 15:03 /bin/ls
>  > 
>  > That's 100K difference and certainly a significant increase, though
>  > one could also perhaps argue that at 189K, ls(1) is no longer the
>  > thin, svelte utility we remember from her youth and another chocolate
>  > eclair or two isn't going to make that big a difference at this point.
> 
> Just make it optional so it'll still fit on install/fixit floppies.

How about using libtermcap, but not linking with it, just access it
through dlopen. Then, if /usr is not mounted, it will fail, /bin/ls will
revert to black&white, but if it won't, it will be able to use tget*.

Andrzej Bialecki

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