From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: BASE-*.ZIP and Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1992 20:17:11 GMT
In article <1992Jul3.105031.17666@dfv.rwth-aachen.de> mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius) writes:
>jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>
>>My recommendation would be to not bother. Ash has too many problems,
>>and it will not be on the next official root disk. Back to bash, it
>>looks like. :) (Maybe, just maybe, zsh. I'm still looking at this.)
>
>The problem with bash is that it's relatively large, ~150K even
>with shared libs.
Yes, it is larger, but I think the benefits far outweigh that small
disadvantage. 'ash' simply didn't work right, and I don't have the
time or inclination to try and fix it when bash is available.
The space savings using shared libraries on the root disk are, as I
expected, enormous. Look for lots more utilities on the 0.96 root disk
(sigh, today or tomorrow).
>BTW: Did you take a look at my root disk? IMHO I made some
>improvements to the installation which also wouldn't hurt for the
>new "official" root disk.
I regret that I haven't had time, since I'm running over a 2400 baud
link and am reluctant to download anything of any size (well, I'll be
downloading X next week sometime, and I had to download GCC 2.2.2, but
there are some necessities :).
If you could summarize the changes, and perhaps even include whatever
install scripts you wrote or whatever, I'd love to take a look at
them. I've written much more advanced ones for the 0.96 root disk,
but I'm always open to suggestions.
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| Harvey Mudd College
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