Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!gwydir!gara!callum From: callum@gara.une.oz (Callum Gibson CCEN) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Clam Scripts Message-ID: <1177@gara.une.oz> Date: 25 Sep 89 23:48:54 GMT References: <1989Sep24.205115.24324@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia Lines: 15 From article <1989Sep24.205115.24324@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, by cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes): | rush of brains to the head and I realise that several of the builtins | aren't extensions, but are fast replacements for programs on disk, e.g. cp | & ls. But, most Minix users have their root file system on a RAM disk | anyway, so we get no speed advantage. So I deleted them. At this point I | got some warnings from a colleague, 'watch what you delete', so I deleted | chdir. :-) Thank goodness I still had sh around. | If you think anyone believes what I have just said, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | then you must be daft in the head! You're right. I'd be interested to know how cp and ls got into Clam as builtins! Maybe you're compiling all the utilities code into Clam :-) Callum.