From: fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: /bin/rc and MGR Date: 20 Jul 1992 18:36:53 GMT
Welp, I'm almost ready to ship an annotated documented binary of
/bin/rc to some upload directory somewhere. However, even after
stripping, the shell is about 67K big. This seems a little on the
large side. Does gcc autodetect shared libs?
On another note, X with multiple xterms is now just as fast as my
sun3/60 when I use rc.
On yet another note, I uploaded mgr, installed it, used it once and
had to delete it. If anyone out there is still messing with it and
wants some bug reportage, let me know.
For those who aren't quite aware, 'rc' is a shell written for the 'plan 9'
operating system by Tom Duff. It's a bit like /bin/sh, but it's smaller,
more C-like, and quicker. Its main disadvantage is that it wasn't intended
for anything but a windowing environment, so it has no job control (i.e.
no same-shell switching between processes.) It runs nicely under X,
though.
-- a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Felix Sebastian Ortony fortony@murphy.gis.uiuc.edu