Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 14:06:55 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, joerg@sax.de, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, install-geeks@FreeBSD.org, bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. Message-ID: <199504012206.OAA11102@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 1995 22:32:58 %2B0200." <199504012032.WAA00824@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>> I'm assuming that perl will let you write the full compliment of mv, >> cp, mkdir, .. blah .. "programs" as much shorter scripts? Even >> crunched, we pay a hefty price for every exec we use! > >Don't get it, sorry. What's the difference between exec'ing perl, >or exec'ing mv? > On the cpio floppy? space. >-- >cheers, J"org > >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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