termcap

[Frank Van Uffelen]

Hi,

I've just managed to get 0.19 running off a harddisk ;-)  

A couple of observations I'd like to discuss:
- the /etc/termcap is really huge, I think that most people only need 
some basic terminal support (eg vt100 and the Linux console - this 
is an embedded system).  That reduces the file to hardly some kB, 
and shrinks the image by some 400kB.
- have you considered using upx on the executables?  It shrinks 
e.g. the busybox in the distribution file to 43566 bytes, and the 
elvis to 43278

All this space could be used to either make the system's footprint 
even smaller than it is right now, or to accomodate ncurses ;-)



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