From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 14:08:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA02297 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 14:08:05 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA02288; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 14:07:57 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA11102; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 14:06:55 -0800 Message-Id: <199504012206.OAA11102@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), 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) Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 1995 22:32:58 +0200." <199504012032.WAA00824@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 14:06:55 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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? > On the cpio floppy? space. >-- >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. ;-) -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================