At 11:24 PM 08/25/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
did you use the strip out options (such as --help files)??? This might
strip it down more.
>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.
that makes sense, since even if it really is 18K versus 30K, the overhead
on the other commands should be more that 12K.... the advantage to busybox
is the combined overhead of one program.
If someone is interested and has time, adding commands to busybox is always
worth the effort, since everyone benefits... it's a very popular package
for small disks.
