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Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Useful tools missing from /rescue
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Tim Kientzle wrote:
> I atttempted to
> fit 'vi' in there, but curses is rather finicky;
> 'sed' would be more useful.

Mined is a nice editor for this, running without curses.  A statically 
linked, stripped binary is about 100k in size, so if crunched it would 
have a very small impact.

cheers
   simon