Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:49:15 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Andrew Hannam <famzon@bigfoot.com>, small@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: One disk vs Two Disk (was Re: New approach to picobsd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001240941450.46802-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <200001240815.JAA38129@info.iet.unipi.it>
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > yesterday i tried to determine how much room is taken by the various > commands on the floppy image (this means after compression). Most > small commands end up taking a fraction of a 4KB block (i.e. the > "df" output with and without those commands is the same): > > df, vm, cat, test, msg, swapon, echo, hostname, ln, w, > reboot, swapon, du, tail, tee, vnconfig, arp, passwd, > mount_nfs, traceroute, pwd_mkdb, dev_mkdb, dev_mkdb, > minigzip (apparently, maybe zlib is already in by some > other reason) > > The shell takes (compressed) 36KB. "ee" takes 32KB. > So i think all in all sash does not give that much savings over > the standard set of commands. See the sizes for our tar, find, grep, dd, ed and others, that SASH provides in minimalistic form. Then you will se the difference. All of them are very useful for messing up with the system, either during installation or when fixing things. It's true that the 'SH' part in SASH is extremely primitive. IMO it should provide at least redirection and pipes in order to be useful for any scripts. > We definitely need a small "vi" clone... There were two utilities I ported from Minix: mined (much better that ee, in my opinion, and still smaller), and Minix sh - 1/4 of our sh, I think. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get in touch with original authors to see if they could re-release the code under other license. See CVS Attic for the files (I checked them in, then bde spotted the licensing issue, so I had to delete them). Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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