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Date:      Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:34:50 +0000
From:      Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Always mystified by this. /stand file sizes
Message-ID:  <5.1.1.6.0.20021202113033.021e5ac0@aph2k>
In-Reply-To: <20021202112131.GA1102@raggedclown.net>
References:  <20021202102559.GA778@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021202063814.GA580@raggedclown.net> <20021202102559.GA778@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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At 12:21 02/12/2002 +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:25:59AM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> >
> > See crunchgen(1).
>
>Oh, that looks interesting :)
>I never knew of such a thing, is it a well kept secret or am I not
>widely read-enough ?
>In point of fact I am slightly puzzled by /stand's existance. It says in
>"hier" that it is for stand-alone systems. What exactly is it referring
>to ? (Yes I know what stand-alone means ! But what context is this used
>in ?)

PicoBSD (see the scripts in ports and the freebsd-small mailing list) uses
it extensively to fit a subset of commands onto small media (typically a
single floppy disc) for use in niche aplications (eg a diskless pc as a 
router).


Rob

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