I've been playing with the new version of busybox at
http://busybox.lineo.com/ and seeing how it works with the tomsrtbt
enviroment.
Points:
BBox46 seems bigger than toms version with equal options, at least when I
compile it. I got 30k, compared to toms which is around 18k.
The newer version has a bunch more commands available.
The command "touch" can create a file now.
A list of the commands and instructions in pseudo-man format is now
included! I took the one big instruction file and broke it down to the
individual commands of busybox so you can drop them in /usr/man.
[doug@godzuki oldbusyboxmans]$ ls
chgrp date fdflush ln mkswap rm swapoff touch
chmod dmesg kill mkdir mv rmdir swapon true
chown false length mknod pwd sleep sync update
That's the list of individual mans. They are spartan, but get the point
across and they drop into a stock tomsrtbt205 disk without any problem. If
anyone is interested in these, just lemme know and I'll send them to you.
Since BBox46 seems to have a bit more initial overhead, I tried replacing
some of the other system commands with those from BBox to pick-up some
space. Many other commands are available with BBox, but the limited options
of some of these kill other stuff within tomsrtbt. I replaced cp, ping, df
and mkfifo without any apparent problems and picked-up some free space: The
buildit.s script now reports 18 sectors free with new busybox installed.
Hmmm, worth a check?
Douglas Bollinger
Mt. Holly Springs, PA 17065
My other computer runs Linux.
