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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:46:11AM -0400, sindi keesan wrote:
> 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?

You are very right and I find it very wasteful.

Never mind. I will do survival pc. I like to find out what you can run
with 486SX with 4 RAM and I am very quite happy with Linux and DOS.

> 
> > > 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?

You must ask the programmer. For consistency, I always use dash.

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

Because it is up to you to specify options when you are compiling. In
this case Steven has not specified ar when he compiles. I can send you
the version I have and when you encounter a deb file, just do:

busybox_I_have ar -t file.deb

> 
> Sindi Keesan
> 
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