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To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
cc: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.mt.net>, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 95 10:36:41 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 00:54:01 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Replace test sleep sed rmdir rm mv mkdir ln grep expr date cp basename
> cat in stand/* with perl + perlscripts and you have enough space :-)

Proof of concept? :-)

I'm not actually utterly unwilling.  This is exactly what BSDI did, but
I'm certainly not a PERL hacker myself.

> PS: you can't load fonts/keymaps without /usr/share/syscons (bindist)

I was planning to merge that with the crunched binary.  Merging in perl
is quite another matter altogether! :-)

					Jordan