Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:36:41 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.mt.net>, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. Message-ID: <199503310836.KAA10937@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <210.796430925@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <199503282243.PAA11905@trout.sri.MT.net> <210.796430925@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >We do have a _small_ problem in that you can only start using things >like perl after the bindist is installed, which means you can't use it >for first-order installation tools (boot/cpio floppy stage), but you >can use libdialog or libforms at the boot floppy stage and dialog/sh >after the cpio stage (first reboot). Depending on the types of tools >you're wanting to write, this may or may not be a problem. > >An example of where it IS a problem is the kbdmap/kbdfont tools, which >I'd really prefer to bring up at the _very beginning_ when it makes >the most sense, but as they use PERL I am unable to do so. Oh well! Replace test sleep sed rmdir rm mv mkdir ln grep expr date cp basename cat in stand/* with perl + perlscripts and you have enough space :-) PS: you can't load fonts/keymaps without /usr/share/syscons (bindist) Gruß Wolfram -- http://hyperg.cs.tu-berlin.de/C~wosch
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