Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!shelby!rutgers!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: SunOS vs. Ultrix comparison Message-ID: <19024@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 15 Feb 91 19:03:08 GMT References: <8012@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jan23.223402.28704@decuac.dec.com> <1928@riscy.enet.dec.com> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Distribution: comp Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 21 In article <1928@riscy.enet.dec.com> frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes: > In article , > barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: > > Sun use to link several SunView applications into one > > executable, and by examining the name of the command, jump to the > > proper branch of the executable. Therefore 5 different programs were > > really one, and only required one copy in memory. > > I don't know if this could be done with common DECwindows applications. > > Sure is possible, and it is already done. On my system (DECstation 3100, > ULTRIX 4.0) dxwm, dxterm, dxue, and dxsession are one binary. Dxcalc, > dxcalendar, dxpuzzle, and dxclock are another, while dxcardfiler, dxpaint, > and dxvdoc are a third. Wouldn't shared libraries be a better solution than mashing sources together to mimimize the overhead from multiple library copies??? -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)