Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:53:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: placement of vi in the filesystem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909062306130.57741-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909052112410.709-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com>
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On the other hand I built a static nvi and put it in /tmp with a > copy of termcap and set the TERMCAP variable. With only / mounted, nvi did > just fine, and it only took 460592 and 188100 bytes for the static nvi and > termcap respectivly. 620K isn't much to argue about these days unless you > want it on a floppy. So since the default root partition doesn't fit on a floppy anyway, you think no one would argue if I suggested putting a static nvi in /bin? That's about as close to suggesting it as I care to get ... obviously I don't think that's the case. ;-) -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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