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echo: rberrypi
to: QHSGRANT@OUTLOOK.COM
from: MM0FMF
date: 2019-02-27 18:49:00
subject: Re: ARM static-binaries f

On 27/02/2019 10:47, qhsgrant@outlook.com wrote:
> Theo wrote:--
>> Most Pi distributions are 32 bit, and Android builds are 64 bit
>> - I'm not sure if 64-bit Android can run 32 bit binaries.
>
> I thought my RPi-1 was 32bit? Not used now for lack of a display.
>
> ARM Tablet: cat /proc/cpuinfo : shows ARMv7;
> and the x86 Tablet was also 32bit. It had charging problems and failed.
>
>   How do you open these damned things, when it fails ?
>
> ]> Where would I find such static-binaries ? Eg. a Forth interpreter,
> ]> some mouse-based program ...
>
>> Compile them yourself, probably.
> No! That's exactly the question. The static-binary: e3 editor was
> marvelous in the X86 Tablet's TerminalEmulator.
> There must be plenty 32Bit ARM static-binaries available.
>
> Compiling opens a whole new can-o-worms.
> That's one reason why I'm investigating Mulinux [1990s fd0:1.7byte]
> which has most apps written in ash/busybox.
>
> BTW Mulinux is mostly menu-based; and I copied & modified an ash-based
> file-manager which I'd written long ago. It shows a numbered: `ls -tl`
>   and the menu:--
> 
> R[move, V[iew, E[dit, cD[ir, U[cd ../, Q[uit, M[kdir, C[opy, F[ind  =
>    So you don't need to eg. `ls -t|less ; nano `
>    you just: 4 e
> !! I've just realised for android: index by a-z is better ?
> --------------
> Previous posters here, have investigated KBox3 & 4, which the author is
> discontinuing, because google/android makes it impossible to ajust to
> their changes, with reasonable effort.
> `chroot`-ing to a simulated  inside the TermlEmu,
> seems just too problematic. So I've decided to accept the limitations of
> ash -- which Android uses.
> BTW. I'm writing/posting this from USBstik-based Tinycore & pasteing
> lines to:
> nc -vv -w 80 -n news.eternal-september.org 119 | tee -a TraceFile
>   and I chose to accept Tinycore's default: non full X11.
> It uses? pstree ==
> init-+-Xfbdev
>       |-aterm---sh---sh
>       |-flwm
>       ...
> .. and Tinycore's default is also ash.
> PS ? Is my  still wrong> ?
>

Long time since this troll has been posting on here.

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