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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Could you possibly compile it yourself and see if you 
> can get e3pi to work without installing tail from txtutils?  

I already have a working copy of e3pi.  It doesn not need
tail.

> You did not include e3pi in BL1.  

I never said I did.  I included e3 (which uses ws keybindings).
There was no need for e3pi because the full pico was there.
Also e3 is smaller than e3pi.

> I think I tried renaming e3 to e3pi and it won't work without 
> tail.  

It won't give you pico keybindings no matter what.  It is the
simple e3 (without the alternate keybindings).

> Do you have an e3pi that you got when you compiled and if so 
> please try it out without tail, or with busybox tail in the 
> right place (linked), thanks.  

I've already done that (temporarily removed tail from my system)
and my e3pi worked fine.  

> e3pi (the one I compiled)
> /usr/bin/tail:  Not a directory
> gzip:  stdin:  unexpected end of file
> Cannot decompress usr/local/bin/e3pi

Sounds like your version of e3pi includes some internal
compression (perhaps to decrease the size of the various 
documentation pages).  When I first got e3pi, I seem to
recall some problem caused by the decompression routine.
It wasn't tail, though; it was zlib or crypt or something
like that.  So I switched to a different version which 
does not use compression.  Because of that my e3pi is
larger than yours:  12890 bytes 

Cheers,
Steven