[ale] Shell

[Chris Fowler]

I have a nice collection of old linux distributions.  I remeber when the programs were small as well as the kernel.  Even when I strip almos everything out of the kernel, I can't seem to get it below 200K.  It even seems that elf bianries have gotten much larger compared to their older ones that wre a.out.  How do you create an embedded distribution in this environment?

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: David Corbin [mailto:dcorbin at machturtle.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 7:11 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Shell



ash is part of debian, so you should be able to find a copy there...
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Coleman <oloryn at mindspring.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Shell



> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:36:42 -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
>
> >Can someone reccomend a very small shell?  I need something smaller than
> >bash that can use the same scripts.  Not complex scripts.  I'm trying to
fit
> >linux in a tight space and would love a shell that is less than 100K
> >compiled.  Bash 1.14 is 299K stripped.
>
> Well, there's ash.  That's the shell that's used on Slackware's
> installation disks.  The compiled ash in Slackware takes about 59K.
> It's Bourne-compatible, and suitable for scripting, but not so much for
> interactive use (no command history, for example).  I'm not sure,
> however, where to find it other than in Slackware, unless it's still in
> NetBSD (the version in Slackware was ported to Linux from NetBSD back
> in 1993).  The source ftp site for ash in the Slackware sources no
> longer exists.
>
> Ben
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