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From: kirkenda@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Elvis 1.3. Now I know :-)
Summary: Under Minix-PC, maybe Elvis should use tinytcap.c
Keywords: termcap, stdio, tinytcap.c
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Date: 9 Sep 90 20:14:13 GMT
References: <21@rc6.urc.tue.nl>
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In article <21@rc6.urc.tue.nl> baron@wiesje.hobby.nl writes:
>1. I have Earl Chew's Stdio package and that generates slightly larger
>   .s files, so asld needs a few kBytes more, which it hasn't.
>   I replaced the original stdio.h and libc.a  and it compiled ok.

This reminded me of something.  I went to a certain amount of trouble to avoid
using stdio in Elvis, because there were only a couple of places that it would
help anyway, and I couldn't spare the fat.  But then I found out that the
termcap functions use stdio internally, so stdio gets sucked in anyway.  This
is a little annoying.

Minix-PC users may wish to try using tinytcap.c instead.  This should shrink
elvis by a couple K-bytes at least, since we lose both the full-fledged termcap
AND stdio.  You could probably take out 2 or 3 of the "-DNO_XXX" flags, then.

Tinytcap.c would have to be tweaked...

If you try this, please let me know how it works for you.
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