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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Neo Sze Wee wrote:

 This is not a laptop.
> > 
> > Is there some reason you cannot add more RAM to have more than 4M RAM in
> > this computer?  We have lots of extra 72-pin 4M SIMMs - want any?
> > We might even be able to spare 4 4M 30-pin SIMMs.  
> 
> Are you in Singapore?

No, presumably you are.  I could mail you RAM if you want but you can
probably also get it quite cheaply there.  People are throwing it out
here.  We found a lot of SIMMs (4-16M, 72-pin) at a non-ferrous metals
recycling place when we brought in motherboards.  A computer repair shop
might sell you some very cheaply.  Or you could pay the postage if I send
it.  72 or 30 pin?

> > How do you use the Debian binaries in BL2?
> 
> My busybox has a command called ar, so to view the content of a deb file
> I issued:
> 
> ar -t something.deb
> 
> to extract:
> 
> at -x something.deb
> 

I have run across this before as 
ar x something.deb  
I also see tar xvfz as tar -xvfz.
Why sometimes a hyphen '-' and sometimes not?

BL2 does not appear to have an ar in its busybox - where do we get one?
Is ar small enough to include in BL2?  

Sindi Keesan