Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:17:34 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@freebsd.org> Cc: hoek@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_gzip.c Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906221115550.2993-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199906220139.DAA01645@qix.jmz.org>
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
> > Use gzexe. I recently fixed some filename guessing weaknesses in the script,
> > so it should be quite safe to use.
>
> gzexe is not an option when you boot from a floppy and when all must
> fit in 1.44MB :-)
Why not? gzexe is a once-off compression step which encapsulates the
executable into a shell script, and has no other space overheads other than
decompression space on /tmp at run-time.
Kris
>
> Jean-Marc
>
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