I'll probably stick it verbatim into the 'contrib' directory.

I wonder- xargs seems like it could be written in awk and made to take up
less than a couple of hundred bytes- would you or anyone be interested in 
taking up the challenge of making a teensy xargs-in-awk? --Tom

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Douglas Bollinger wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 21:23:23 -0400
> From: Douglas Bollinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] My extra stuff for tomsrtbt
> 
> Here's a tarball of the extra stuff I use with tomsrtbt:
> 
> http://freeshell.org/~doug/iopener/files/extratmrt.tar.gz
> 
> Includes:
> 
> man pages for busybox commands
> afio
> xargs
> man pages for the above binaries
> 
> The man pages for busybox are ripped from the docs of the newer version of
> busyboxy, changed a bit so the options are the same with the version of
> busybox on tomsrtbt.  Afio and xargs are from the latest source I could
> find, using the "compilation kit" Toms has on his site.
> 
> I have the tarball setup with paths to install into a running version of
> tomsrtbt RAM disks.  Like this:
> 
> #>cd /
> #>gzip -cd /fl/extratmrt.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> 
> This way, you can umount the floppy and use the new things without worrying
> about making paths to /tmp for commands etc.  I keep the tarball on a
> separate floppy with a few kernel modules I need.
> 
> Use as you wish.
> 
> Douglas Bollinger
> Mt. Holly Springs, PA
> 
> My other computer runs Linux.
> 

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