From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 20:51: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469B714EE9 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA58225; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:53:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:53:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: placement of vi in the filesystem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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