From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 16:34:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0606E16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497BC43FE0 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from gamplex.bde.org (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3p2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA26776; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:34:08 +1100 From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20031122.120100.16269141.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20031123112720.J3301@gamplex.bde.org> References: <3FBD5CCE.40905@acm.org> <20031122.120100.16269141.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: bv@wjv.com cc: bms@spc.org cc: jhs@berklix.org cc: kientzle@acm.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:34:48 -0000 X-Original-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:34:08 +1100 (EST) X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:34:48 -0000 On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20031121010211.GD84421@saboteur.dek.spc.org> > Bruce M Simpson writes: > : On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:31:10PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > : > * /rescue/vi is currently unusable if /usr is missing because > : > the termcap database is in /usr. One possibility > : > would be to build a couple of default termcap entries > : > into ncurses or into vi. > : > : My suggested candidates are vt100 and cons25. The comconsole port installs > : an /etc/ttys entry using vt100. This is also the default terminal type for > : most dialup entries. > > Timing Solutions uses the following minimal termcap for its embedded > applications. It has a number of terminals that it supports, while > still being tiny. it is 3.5k in size, which was the goal ( < 4k block > size we were using). One could SED this down by another 140 bytes or > so. Removing the comments and the verbose names would net another 300 > odd bytes. What's wrong with FreeBSD's /usr/src/etc/termcap.small, except it is twice as large and has a weird selection of entries (zillions of variants of cons25, dosansi and pc3). Bruce