[Coco] Trimming NOS-9

[Mark Marlette]

Curtis,

Haven't checked in a while but NitrOs-9 does this by default on the  
common utils. Not in front of my system right now.

Always a good idea though beyond the common ones to do this.

Mark

Quoting "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:33:45 -0600, Diego Barizo
> <diegoba at adinet.com.uy> wrote:
>> Edit is not a problem, because I hope to replace it with a full   
>> text editor (Sled maybe?)
>> Thanks about the DEFS directory. Being not sure about what it was   
>> used for, I would have left it there.
>>
>> Diego
>>
>> Bob Devries wrote:
>>> Hi Diego,
>>>
>>> that list of commands can certainly be dispensed with, or at least  
>>>  moved to another disk in another drive if you have a two-drive   
>>> system.
>>>
>>> Possible exceptions that I have found useful are edit and dump,   
>>> for editing scripts and viewing binary files respectively.
>>>
>>> I would doubt that reboot would close any open files. How would it  
>>>  know which files are open? Still, it's a question the NitrOS9  
>>> team  is better equipped to answer.
>>>
>>> -- Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Another thing you can do to save a little space (both disk and RAM), is
> to take smaller CMD modules that you use often, MERGE them (<=7.5K),
> and load them at boot time. Since every module load takes the 7.5K
> irregardless, you might as well make use of the space. I usually had
> some of the smaller ones mixed with the SHELL, and then LOADed a couple
> of others with utilities/programs that I used often (within the 7.5K
> limit, of course).
>
> -- 
> L. Curtis Boyle
>
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