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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:47:53 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net>
Subject: Re: cygwin on a disk?
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Kevin, Tim,

For your purposes, the "Ultimate Packer for eXecutables" (UPX) may be 
in order. It has been part of Cygwin for, what, a few months now? The 
Cygwin Setup.exe is distributed in UPX format.

It takes bash.exe down from 520K to 230K. Not bad. I have not tested 
its effect on launch times, but it seems that a) It's small enough and 
b) time less important for you than space in this situation.

Check the Web for information (there appears to be no man page or info 
entry for it).

Randall Schulz


At 08:25 2003-04-23, Tim Renner wrote:
>Well, it's not quite on a floppy disk (bzipped = 3.8 MB, 
>uncompressed=7.7 MB), but what I've found to need, just copying over 
>on demand for what I do:
>
>executables (3.1 MB):
>awk, bash, cat, chmod, cp, cygcheck, gzip, less, ls, mkdir, more, mv, 
>perl, pwd, rm, scp, sed, sftp, ssh, tar, telnet, vim, wget, which
>
>supporting dlls (4.6 MB):
>cygwin1.dll, cygiconv-2.dll, cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll, libperl5_6_1.dll, 
>cygcrypto.dll, cygncurses6.dll, cygssl.dll, cygz.dll, cygintl-1.dll, 
>cygintl-2.dll
>
>Definitely can save some space by cutting out some of those programs 
>(vim(942K) and bash(531K) being the biggest space hogs... sh(69K) is 
>MUCH smaller)
>
>Anyways, there's a rough guide... hope it helps... Havn't messed with 
>mount or the registry at all, so I'm sure I'm missing something ;)
>
>-Tim
>
>>From: Kevin Soandso <k DOT junk AT verizon DOT net>
>>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>Subject: cygwin on a disk?
>>Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:26:03 -0400
>>
>>I use cygwin at home and work all the time and I love it. Many thanks 
>>to all the developers and contributors.
>>
>>I have a 64MB removable USB drive, about the size of a pen. I would 
>>like to minimally install cygwin on this drive and and take it from 
>>computer to computer. The idea is to simply plug the drive into the 
>>USB port of any Windows machine and have my personal cygwin 
>>environment there to use. I won't have the same Windows account on 
>>these machines (if at all), but I'd like to use the same cygwin login 
>>and home dir.
>>
>>Is there something about the way cygwin works that will prevent this?
>>Has anyone made "cgywin on a disk" ?
>>How could I do this, what do I need?
>>
>>-Kevin


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