From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 14 11:48:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03616 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03611 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/) with SMTP id OAA03235; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:48:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA19360; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:48:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:47:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Michael Smith cc: Narvi , jkh@time.cdrom.com, token@wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: help from Emacs/XEmacs/Jove/Jed/... users In-Reply-To: <199706100755.RAA06309@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > Narvi stands accused of saying: > > > > > > It's too big. This was the original complaint, and it hasn't gotten > > > any smaller since. Zile sounds pretty good by comparison. > > > > Two big? > > > > # ll /usr/local/bin/pico > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 Apr 24 10:35 /usr/local/bin/pico > > That's the stub. Add the shared library. > > > Yes, pico does make use of a 160K shared library, but it shares it with > > pilot (a kind of file browser) and pine. Besides, I am not very sure, > > whetever pico needs everything that is in /usr/local/lib/pico, most > > probably a libpicolite could be made that contained only the functions > > needed and used by pico. > > ... which is what I suggested to Chuck, and he is now pursuing. Bad news: pilot adds almost no extra functions, so removing pilot doesn't gain us anything. libpico.so.1.3 still about 160K. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------