upx, tinylogin

[Frank Van Uffelen]

Hi,

I've continued some of my tests.  The results:
- upx compressed executables don't seem to work on a 386, on a 
Pentium, K6 and P-II they work correctly.  This may be a problem 
for real embedded systems as the 386sx is still quite popular there.
- I've started to experiment with tinylogin, a multicall binary like 
busybox that replaces login, su, passwd, getty and some other 
utilities.  It's really nice, but I have some problems with su and with 
remote login as root.  I'll keep you posted.
- I'm having a couple of problems with elvis : it seems to loose 
track of the operations on a line (successions of a, i, x for 
example), resulting in unwanted results.  Am I the only one having 
this problem?  

In the mean time : most of my tests were done on a K6-200 and a 
386dx25 (yesyes ;-)) with 8MB RAM.  Even the latter "feels" quite 
OK and should be a usable platform for simple tasks or for tasks 
were high performance is not an issue.






Frank Van Uffelen
fvu@nfe.be
Please note : my @tornado.be address ceased to exist end of '98!
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