Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!news.stolaf.edu!thor.acc.stolaf.edu!mike From: mike@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Mike Haertel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: Bash (was Re: csh) Message-ID: <1991Mar15.200900.26519@news.stolaf.edu> Date: 15 Mar 91 20:09:00 GMT References: <1991Mar8.223519.25569@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <2078@public.BTR.COM> <1991Mar14.230355.29442@chance.UUCP> Sender: news@news.stolaf.edu Reply-To: mike@thor.acc.stolaf.edu () Distribution: na Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN Lines: 13 In article <1991Mar14.230355.29442@chance.UUCP> john@chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) writes: >|On the down side, >|I compiled it with gcc (no shared libs) and it is >600K. > >Yowza! That borders on obscene! [...] I don't think bash is that big. I wonder if the person who posted the original article (whose name you omitted) had the presence of mind to strip it or use size(1) instead of 'ls -l'? Most GNU programs come with makefiles that specify -g by default... -- Mike Haertel "He's a tie with the ambition to become a full-blown suit." -- Jon Westbrock