From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 17 00:03:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA21333 for current-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 00:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA21327 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 00:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id HAA10688; Fri, 17 May 1996 07:55:40 +0100 (BST) To: Heikki Suonsivu cc: Michael Smith , jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: /stand/ee In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 May 1996 08:04:23 +0300." <199605170504.IAA26098@katiska.clinet.fi> Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 07:55:39 +0100 Message-ID: <10686.832316139@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.