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Date:Mon Nov 11 13:46:57 2003 
Subject:Re: poplog for linux libc5 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1031111.05 

Chris Dollin wrote:
> 
>  top-post@not wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if a 'core system' could fit on a single 1M4 diskette ?
> 
> *Some* core could. Whether it would be an interesting and useful
> core is a separate question.

Indeed the pop11 executable (which bzip2 compresses down to less than
0.5Mb) will run by itself, although lots of familiar commands will be
missing because they come from libraries.

The uncompressed files in my tar archive come to about 11.5Mb, of which
5.5Mb are in the doc, help and ref directories.  I'm sure you could find
enough other stuff that doesn't interest you to get the compressed
remainder down to well under half the current total for your personal
core.

Stephen Isard