atlast

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Hi,

Russell Nelson wrote:
> IMHO, atlast should be incorporated into mgetty.  The executable on my
> ELF Linux box is 52K, size when loaded is 27K.  By contrast, vgetty is
> 424K in memory.  John is quite right in that mgetty is painfully
> becoming programmable -- starting with the config file which has
> already been added.

While I agree that ATLAST is quite nice, I'm not really sure how mgetty
or sendfax would benefit from it. Both are quite specialized tools that
fulfill very specific needs, and I don't see much programming effort
needed here.

Wile I agree that the config file is a step towards "becoming programmable",
it is something completely different from an own programming/macro
language, and the latter isn't needed here. Can you convince me of the
opposite?

For vgetty, things are different, because the range of "voice
applications" is a *lot* greater and programming vgetty via shell
scripts is very painful.


gert
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