nano (pico clone) as the boot-floppies editor

[bug1 <bug1@netconnect.com.au>]

If you havent heard of nano, its a free pico clone with a few minor
enhancements, i was looking at it as a possible replacment for ae.

ae is 23888 bytes and uses slang
nano is 29260 bytes and uses ncurses by default

As ncurses isnt pretty big, i had a go at compiling nano against slang,
i had to change a couple of lines, but it compiles and runs ok.

There is one cosmetic difference that i see, i havent tested it a great
deal.

the libraries requirements for ae are the same except for libc-2.1.3.so

libc for ae is 221588
libc for nano is 227232

The final diference is library size would be less than the 5.5K
difference depending on the other binaries used.

So if we wanted to use a pico clone instead of ae as the boot floppies
editor it would 5.5KB extra for the binary and upto 5.5KB for the
libraries.
 

Worth considering...

Thanks

Glenn McGrath