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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> What else can we do with ar besides unpack .deb files?  

ar is an archiving utility (similar to tar).  It is the
archiver of choice for libraries.

> I have been unable to access the older Deb distributions 
> via the link to Debian archives at archive.debian.org/debian-archive.

Unlike Slackware, Debian does not mantain old collections.  However,
with some clever googling you can find defunct Debian stuff in odd 
corners.

> You also put in 'echo', I think, which will help with compiling.

That's not why it's there.

> But 15M is sort of small for compiling in 

The 15mb filesystem was not designed for compiling.

> and I never could quite understand how to make it larger.  

Do you understand how to make a separate Linux partition on your 
harddisk and put an ext2 filesystem on it?

> I hope you will write a faq on that 

I'd rather write a script.

> so people with low-RAM systems won't need to struggle through 
> installing plain X on BL1 if they want X in more colors.

That does not make sense.  Why would they put plain X on BL1
when they can simply run Xvesa on BL3?  The 15mb filesystem
is certainly no problem in that regard.

Cheers,
Steven