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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:05:49 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cu(1) (Was: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.var.dist)
Message-ID:  <20011028000419.E96000-100000@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011027094051.C573@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Saturday, 27 October 2001 at  8:01:36 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Yes.  cu(1) is one of the oldest unix utilities.  It should be moved to
> > ports long after things like rain(6).  I actually normally use my own
> > terminal program, since cu is too bloated:
> >
> >    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >  419851	   6716	  76560	 503127	  7ad57	/usr/bin/cu
> >  340083	   7548	  64816	 412447	  64b1f	/usr/bin/tip
> >    9873	    132	   2432	  12437	   3095	/home/bde/bin/term
> >
> > (all statically linked).
>
> So why haven't you committed it?

cu and tip are adequate (except possibly if you want to run them off
small media).

Bruce


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