From owner-freebsd-small Thu Oct 1 03:22:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA24543 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:22:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA24535 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA24249; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:26:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:26:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai cc: FreeBSD Small Subject: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > I read that ye had the desire/wish to make the router version of picoBSD > akin in use to Cisco's IOS/Shiva's SpiderSoftware? > As far as I am concerned, I like that idea and would gladly contribute my > opinions and wishes for such an interface, might be a program/shell that > will be loaded at boottime to give the user such an interface... Perhaps this is a dead end, perhaps not.. but now I'm experimenting with Forth (in fact, its variant: /usr/ports/lang/atlast) - I need this in some other project as well, and I thought it would be a nice approach. It's very small, fast, robust, it has very well defined memory constraints and consumption, and what's important it allows for embedding in your program. Now, there is a huge number of other script languages (python, tcl, Bourne shell, to name a few), some of them are embeddable, but all of them are much bigger and much more hungry for resources... At the moment it's just an idea, I haven't written any code yet, just playing with it. I'm sure those of you, white-bearded hackers, who have more experience in this area, will have some opinions on this... :-) > Also I am testing the bootdisks too and unfortunately they were they older > versions with the DEVFS stuff in it and paniced on two dell systems, but > ran fine on my system here... But that's not really helpful =) I hope you've got the new (0.41) version? The version with DEVFS (0.4) can survive if you don't use filesystem too much (if you edit a small file, you're fine, but do an 'ls -lR /' and it will die on you). Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message