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From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton)
Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended?
In-Reply-To: bill@twwells.com's message of Thu, 21 Mar 1996 03:45:17 GMT
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:58:46 GMT

Our friend, bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells), wrote:

> In article <4ipn36$3aq@adv.iaehv.nl>, Arjan de Vet <devet@adv.IAEhv.nl> wrote:
> : Smaller? When I compile bash with config.h.mini, statically linked and
> : stripped, and compare it with the statically linked and stripped /bin/sh I
> : get (on 2.0.5):
> :
> : -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  290816 Mar 20 20:35 bash
> : -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin    299008 Jun 10  1995 sh
> 
> Yeah, smaller. I use the full-blown version for my shell. If one
> is going to all the trouble of using bash, one might as well get
> all the benefits....

  You call readline a _benefit_????  *boggle*

Soren