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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:26:22 -0800
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        justin.wojdacki@analog.com
Cc:        Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal
Message-ID:  <3DD2994E.65F078E7@softweyr.com>
References:  <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> <p05200f03b9f706009d91@[192.168.254.205]> <3DD157D6.2BA95A13@analog.com>

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Justin Wojdacki wrote:
> 
> Rich Morin wrote:
> >
> > My spouse had the problem of creating a bootable copy of A/UX on a
> > single floppy.  She decided to write a "doitall" program that had
> > functionality from a number of small commands.  This amortized the
> > overhead a great deal.
> 
> If you're seriously interested in this, take a look at busybox.
> 
> http://busybox.lineo.org
> 
> Not sure how compatible the licensing is for FreeBSD base software
> though.

BusyBox is essentialy what crunchgen does, though with crunchgen you get
the full-featured FreeBSD versions of commands, not the stripped-down
sometimes functionless versions in BusyBox.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/

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