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Christian Brandt wrote:
>
> >>     114 May  1  2004 ./etc/fstab
> >>      27 Apr 11  1998 ./etc/host.conf
> >>      85 Oct  8  2000 ./etc/hosts
> >>     209 Feb 23  2004 ./etc/inittab

Essential.

> >>    1180 Oct  6  2004 ./etc/issue

Optional.  This provides the greeting screen at startup.

> >>     691 Feb 18  2004 ./etc/ld.so.cache
> >>      17 Feb 10  2004 ./etc/ld.so.conf

Essential for dynamic binaries (but not busybox).

> >>     191 May  9  2004 ./etc/lilo.conf

Optional.  Used only when configuring lilo.

> >>   21262 Feb 18  2004 ./etc/magic

Optional.  Used only by the "file" binary.

> >     115 Mar  9  2004 ./etc/passwd

Not needed.  
 
> >     396 Apr 26  2004 ./etc/profile

Config file for shell startup.

> >     385 May  6  2004 ./etc/rc

Config file for system startup.

> >     438 May  6  2004 ./etc/rc.hd

Replacement rc (used after install-to-hd).
 
> >>    3162 Feb 20  2004 ./etc/termcap

Essential.

> > Is setserial relevant to a Mac?
> It is not even relevant on i386 today.  In ancient times it was 
> necessary to "bind" a higher serial rate to a fake rate, in other words, 
> unix officially topped out at 38400bps and to use 115200bps you needed 
> to bind 115200 whenever someone called for 38400bps. only needed if you 
> use some pretty ancient software.

setserial is also used to to set a com port to a 
nonstandard IRQ.  This is often done for ISA modems.
 
> >>   12803 Feb 24  2004 ./usr/bin/e3pi
> >>   12803 Feb 24  2004 ./usr/bin/e3vi

That's the editor.  e3pi does pico keybindings.
e3vi does vi keybindings.  It looks like two 
files, but it's actually only one (same inode).  

> >>   56544 Dec  1  2002 ./usr/bin/less
> >>    2293 Jul 21  2000 ./usr/bin/lesspipe.sh
> > 
> > What does this do?

Pager (similar to more, but with more functionality).
Optional.  

> >>     819 Oct  6  2004 ./usr/bin/pkg

Optional.  Used to install Slackware packages.

> >>   29556 Mar  4  2004 ./usr/bin/readmail
> >>     174 Mar  5  2004 ./usr/bin/send2mbox

Optional.  Used for processing mail.

> >>    9044 Jan  7  2000 ./usr/bin/setleds

Used to set num-lock, caps-lock, etc. at startup.
Optional.

> >>     812 Mar  7  2004 ./usr/bin/wp

Primitive word processor.  Optional.

> >>      49 May 19  1994 ./usr/bin/zless

Pager for gzipped text files.  Optional.


Cheers,
Steven

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