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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > which I don't have room to install on my 170M hard drive 
> > where I got the compiler to work again.  But I do at least 
> > have ar working there now, which is needed to unpack .deb 
> > binaries.
> 
> ar is in BL3.

Yes, I recall you mentioning that.  What else can we do with ar besides 
unpack .deb files?  I have been unable to access the older Deb 
distributions (presumably 1.x would match BL3) via the link to Debian 
archives  at archive.debian.org/debian-archive.

You also put in 'echo', I think, which will help with compiling.  But 15M
is sort of small for compiling in and I never could quite understand how
to make it larger.  I hope you will write a faq on that so people with
low-RAM systems won't need to struggle through installing plain X on BL1
if they want X in more colors.

Sindi