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> Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> How do I figure out what it expands to?  

Execute top.  It will show you the RSS (real storage size) for
all your running processes.  The RSS for links-ssl is nearly
1.2mb.  The RSS for the links in BL3 is 500kb.

This is not an issue for people with more than 8mb RAM, but it
could be a show-stopper for people with 4mb RAM.

> The uncompressed links 0.93 is 488K and the compressed links-ssl 
> is about 400K.  

The links in BL3 is 429kb.

> We tested it at three secure sites already - one bbs and two 
> webmail sites.  

I'm glad it is working OK.  Should be a pretty good add-on for
BL1, BL2 or BL3.  I believe the ssh at basiclinux.com.ru also
works on any version.

> Perhaps you can recompile it to leave out support for other 
> languages and character sets 

It was compiled in diet-libc (which I do not have) and them
compressed with UPX (which I also do not have).  Moreover,
removing a few language files is not going to change the
footprint very much.  I've tried that in the past without
gaining a significant reduction in size.

> I have copied eznet.conf and resolv.conf to the BL2 directory 
> on my hard drive and will copy them over manually back to the 
> RAMdisk every time unless you can tell me some way to have that 
> happen while booting.

Why don't you edit baslinux.gz and customize it to do exactly
what you want?
(1) gunzip baslinux.gz
(2) mount baslinux  -- first you'll need to 'insmod loop'
'                      then mount -o loop baslinux /mnt
(3) cd /mnt and change what you want
(4) when you are done, umount /mnt and gzip baslinux

Cheers,
Steven