Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:05:53 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked Message-ID: <20031123164811.Q4547@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20031122.221350.117024907.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20031123131536.M3946@gamplex.bde.org> <20031122.195519.127506801.imp@bsdimp.com> <20031122.221350.117024907.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <3FC02538.7040903@mindspring.com> > Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> writes: > : M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > : > : 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. > : > > : > You have a good point. My termcap was done so that we could run a > : > number of applications... > : > > : > Grepping seems unsatisfying to find out which keys are used. Do you > : > have a list? nvi/cl/cl_bsd.c has a possibly complete enough list in its terminfo translation table. > : Is the extra maintenance worth it to save a few hundred bytes? Probably not, if this is mainly for use by rescue on larger (multi-megabyte) disks. I used an 8K termcap on 1200MB floppy rescue disks many years ago, > Generating them automatically can be kind of difficult. termcap > doesn't change that often. As someone pointed out, ed is sufficient. It's all we had on the root partition. I remember how to use it mainly from using it there. Bruce
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