From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 16 22:04:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA12003 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 22:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA11997 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 22:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from katiska.clinet.fi (root@katiska.clinet.fi [194.100.0.4]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.7.5/8.6.4) with ESMTP id IAA12933; Fri, 17 May 1996 08:04:23 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (hsu@localhost) by katiska.clinet.fi (8.7.5/8.6.4) id IAA26098; Fri, 17 May 1996 08:04:23 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 08:04:23 +0300 (EET DST) Message-Id: <199605170504.IAA26098@katiska.clinet.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: Michael Smith Cc: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu), jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /stand/ee In-Reply-To: <199605170415.NAA09755@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199605170101.EAA09562@cantina.clinet.fi> <199605170415.NAA09755@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Organization: Clinet Ltd, Espoo, Finland Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: > You type and select it from the menu. This is the first thing > listed in the help region at the top of the screen. Really, take a random computer user and try it on him (the less (s)he has used computers the better). It is worth taking the best available solution, particularly when a utility which will be used very often is selected. > pico is not small. There are plenty of small editors out there; 'ee' > just got lucky. Reality check, please: hsu@cantina.clinet.fi Fri 12: size /usr/bin/ee text data bss dec hex 57344 4096 0 61440 f000 hsu@cantina.clinet.fi Fri 13: which pico /usr/local/bin/pico hsu@cantina.clinet.fi Fri 14: size /usr/local/bin/pico text data bss dec hex 8192 4096 0 12288 3000 hsu@cantina.clinet.fi Fri 15: ls -l /usr/bin/ee /usr/local/bin/pico -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 61440 May 16 10:15 /usr/bin/ee -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 Apr 4 13:21 /usr/local/bin/pico Pico is significantly smaller! -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@clinet.fi mobile +358-40-5519679 work +358-0-4375360 fax -4555276 home -8031121