sh vs. sh5 in ultrix

[wolf paul]

In article <3865 at umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rouben at math13.math.umbc.edu writes:
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     system      45056 Apr  1 12:27 /bin/sh
>-rwxr-xr-x  2 root     system     163840 Apr  1 09:56 /usr/bin/sh5
>
>So the executable for sh5 is more than three times larger than that
>of sh.  For quick execution of simple tasks there is a sense of 
>overkill in using sh5.  I guess that's the reason that the folks at
>DEC have not replaced sh with sh5.

Huh? On our VAX6210 running Ultrix 3.1:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root        23552 Jan 11  1989 /bin/sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root        44032 Jan 11  1989 /bin/sh5

That's not even twice the size!

I suspect that on your machine, sh is stripped, and sh5 is not.

And SOME increase in size is almost necessary for an increase in
functionality :-) ...
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