[Coco] Trimming NOS-9

[Diego Barizo]

Since the sector size is 256 bytes, merging files with a size a little 
bit over 256 or the smallest ones, to a file with a size almost 256 (or 
512, etc) would be the best way to save space, right?

Diego


Mark Marlette wrote:
> 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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