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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] New busybox to-do list.
From:       Rob Landley <rob () landley ! net>
Date:       2005-01-25 0:23:24
Message-ID: 200501241923.24559.rob () landley ! net
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On Monday 24 January 2005 02:26 pm, Josh wrote:
> The less tool from asmutils is very sweet (and written in assembly -
> ie, tiny.) and is released under the GPL... would only work on x86
> platforms thought...
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Josh

That does sound nice, but not assembly.

I'm considering buying an imac mini next month (well I wanna play world of 
warcraft!) and that means I'd be playing with a power PC Linux partition.  On 
the x86 side of things, it's all going x86-64 over the next three years...

On the other hand, there's no need for curses.  ANSI escape sequences are good 
enough.  (They may be a bit ugly, but they're small and simple and supported 
by Linux since 1992.)

I've pondered writing a dumb little "not curses/termcap" library that exposes 
the appropriate library binding and just outputs ANSI, but I'd have to learn 
those two libraries first...

Rob
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