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. -- ------------------------------------------------- Justin Wojdacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] (408) 350-5032 Communications Processors Group -- Analog Devices To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
