Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 12:25:41 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: joerg@sax.de, Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.mt.net>, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, install-geeks@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. Message-ID: <28288.796767941@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 95 15:34:12 %2B0200." <199504011334.PAA17986@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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> FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE > 1) normal crunch > 2) add perl > 3) add perl and substract sed, ed, grep, tar, ncftp > > uncompressed > 1. 1114112 cpio_flp_1 > 2. 1380352 cpio_flp_1_perl (+266240 bytes) > 3. 1052672 cpio_flp_1_perl_short (-61440 bytes) > > compressed > 1. 556835 cpio_flp_1 > 2. 674193 cpio_flp_1_perl (+117358 bytes) > 3. 518072 cpio_flp_1_perl_short (- 38763 bytes) Interesting figures. I assume you eliminate tar because of cpio? I notice that we still have tar on our CPIO floppy (awful name, BTW - it's time to change it!), do we need it ourselves or are we just being nice? I would guess that we can and should eliminate the last of the direct tar usage in the next release, deciding once and for all on *one* archiver (either retain cpio or go to pax!). Anyway, I digress. This cpio_flp_1_perl_short - you don't say much about how you made it or why it's "short" :-). I'm assuming that perl will let you write the full compliment of mv, cp, mkdir, .. blah .. "programs" as much shorter scripts? Even crunched, we pay a hefty price for every exec we use! Jordan
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