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Article #1004Re: sh vs. sh5 in ultrix
From: wolf paul
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 13:32
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 13:32
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In article <3865@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rouben@math13.math.umbc.edu writes:
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 45056 Apr 1 12:27 /bin/sh
>-rwxr-xr-x 2 root system 163840 Apr 1 09:56 /usr/bin/sh5
>
>So the executable for sh5 is more than three times larger than that
>of sh. For quick execution of simple tasks there is a sense of
>overkill in using sh5. I guess that's the reason that the folks at
>DEC have not replaced sh with sh5.
Huh? On our VAX6210 running Ultrix 3.1:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 23552 Jan 11 1989 /bin/sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 44032 Jan 11 1989 /bin/sh5
That's not even twice the size!
I suspect that on your machine, sh is stripped, and sh5 is not.
And SOME increase in size is almost necessary for an increase in
functionality :-) ...
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