On Tuesday 12 November 2002 02:34 pm, Justin Wojdacki wrote: > Rich Morin wrote: > > My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a > > single floppy. She decided to write a "doitall" program that had > > functionality from a number of small commands. This amortized the > > overhead a great deal. > > > > A similar approach could be used for /(s)bin: lump several programs > > together into a single binary, but give the binary links for each > > of the original names (and have the program respond according to > > the name used, ala vi/ex). > > > > My general reaction, however, is that this issue (shrinking sbin) > > is not worth trashing the software engineering of piles of commands. > > > > -r > > -- > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 > > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. > > http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. > > http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series > > http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > If you're seriously interested in this, take a look at busybox. > > http://busybox.lineo.org > > Not sure how compatible the licensing is for FreeBSD base software > though.
Make that http://www.busybox.net/ Its GPL. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
