From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix install & "standalone" package
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 11:07:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPZ/YpHfeBEj0paD@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A989054DE79CE5059CBA74797391E39.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
> I don't remember any special many-programs-in-one binary
> like busybox in any Unix from the days when Unix was simple
> enough for me to understand. That covers the entire lifetime
> of the Research systems, but also System V and the BSDs and
> their sundry offspring up into at least the 1990s.
>
> I'm pretty sure OpenBSD at least still has nothing like
> busybox. The nearest thing was to make sure certain programs
look at ls -i output on the install media/bsd.rd
https://man.openbsd.org/crunchgen.8
Added to FreeBSD and NetBSD in 1994.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-05 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-04 14:44 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
2023-09-04 14:55 ` [TUHS] " Vincenzo Nicosia
2023-09-04 17:20 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 19:05 ` Clem Cole
2023-09-05 17:03 ` Paul Winalski
2023-09-05 18:02 ` Clem Cole
2023-09-04 19:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-04 23:51 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 17:18 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 22:10 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-05 15:53 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-06 17:50 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-07 0:11 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-07 16:05 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-08 14:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-08 13:56 ` Michael Kjörling
2023-09-08 23:38 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-09 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-11 4:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-11 22:05 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-09-05 1:07 ` Jonathan Gray [this message]
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2023-09-04 9:57 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-09-04 14:53 ` [TUHS] " emanuel stiebler
2023-09-04 17:07 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 18:21 ` Dan Cross
2023-09-05 11:15 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-09-05 14:15 ` Clem Cole
2023-09-05 17:03 ` Warner Losh
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