From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 18:27:48 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 618E416A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:27:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9956E43F75 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:27:46 -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 NAA05568; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:27:18 +1100 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:27:18 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20031122.184733.32325352.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20031123131536.M3946@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20031121010211.GD84421@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20031123112720.J3301@gamplex.bde.org> <20031122.184733.32325352.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: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: kientzle@acm.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: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 02:27:48 -0000 On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20031123112720.J3301@gamplex.bde.org> > Bruce Evans writes: > : On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > 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). > > Mine is better because it has a more representative slice of currently > used terminal types. Maybe we should replace termcap.small with mine > (maybe with the copyright notice). I agree. termcap.small is amazingly uncurrent. However, perhaps some merging and reducing is in order. Why is a full cons25 or vt2xx needed? vi only needs a few capabilities. I think we mostly use copies of large termcap entries because copying the whole things is easier. Bruce Bruce