Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 07:55:39 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /stand/ee Message-ID: <10686.832316139@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 May 1996 08:04:23 %2B0300." <199605170504.IAA26098@katiska.clinet.fi>
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Heikki Suonsivu wrote in message ID <199605170504.IAA26098@katiska.clinet.fi>: > 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! >From experience of a program I'm working on at the minute (where I do check bin file sizes once compiled), I doubt that that is pico, much more likely a wrapper that your pico uses to do something before calling the real pico. I'd be surprised to get that sort of functionality into that little code space. Even using assembler it'd be a challenge. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
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