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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Message-Id: <199504012032.WAA00824@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools.
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 22:32:58 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, joerg@sax.de, nate@trout.sri.mt.net,
        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, install-geeks@FreeBSD.org,
        bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
In-Reply-To: <28288.796767941@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 1, 95 12:25:41 pm
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE
> > 1) normal crunch
> > 2) add perl
> > 3) add perl and substract sed, ed, grep, tar, ncftp
> > 
> > uncompressed
> > 1. 1114112 cpio_flp_1
> > 2. 1380352 cpio_flp_1_perl (+266240 bytes)
> > 3. 1052672 cpio_flp_1_perl_short (-61440 bytes)
> > 
> > compressed
> > 1. 556835 cpio_flp_1  		 
> > 2. 674193 cpio_flp_1_perl (+117358 bytes)
> > 3. 518072 cpio_flp_1_perl_short (- 38763 bytes)
> 
> Interesting figures.  I assume you eliminate tar because of cpio?  I
> notice that we still have tar on our CPIO floppy (awful name, BTW -
> it's time to change it!), do we need it ourselves or are we just being
> nice? I would guess that we can and should eliminate the last of the
> direct tar usage in the next release, deciding once and for all on
> *one* archiver (either retain cpio or go to pax!).

We should offer this to Bruce, too.  He's the only one that has ever
been looking into the awful minor # story.  I'm quoting the above
completely for him (and send it to him, too).

> I'm assuming that perl will let you write the full compliment of mv,
> cp, mkdir, .. blah .. "programs" as much shorter scripts?  Even
> crunched, we pay a hefty price for every exec we use!

Don't get it, sorry.  What's the difference between exec'ing perl,
or exec'ing mv?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)