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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: purpose of /stand ??? Date: 10 May 1996 21:21:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4n0c00$ooo@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31724B4D.41C67EA6@merlin.rockwell.cz> <4l46vg$ar@anorak.coverform.lan> <4mam2r$43v@news.zipnet.net> <4mtgtp$il@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > : What are the pros and cons of using them regularly? Thanks! > Pros: Save disk space by removing the 'real' versions > Cons: They are a bit skeletal - they don't support all of the > options that the real versions do. What makes you think this? It's a ``normal'' crunched binary, with no special (and hard to main- tain) crippleties applied. Look into /usr/src/release/boot_crunch.conf to see how it's being assembled. (Actually, i think it's two binaries, root_crunch and boot_crunch merged into a single directory.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)