README for tiny-utils
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Tiny-utils is a package intended to provide compact-memory-model system
utilities for small architectures running ELKS, although it should run on
Linux/386 just as well.  Tiny-utils will, at the least, contain tiny-init
tiny-login, and tiny-getty.  Other applications are being developed, but these
three are currently at the heart of the package.  

Tiny-utils hopes to achive minimal memory usage through several means:
	* Cautious use of library functions -- stdio, for
	  example, is completely omitted.
	* Omission of extraneous options, or, at the very least,
	  inclusion of more arcane options _only_ as compile-time
	  options so that the user may choose to build a skeleton
	  application.
	* Tighter (hopefully) code.

There's not much more to say, for the moment.  Submissions of code and
suggestions/criticisms are welcome.  I've been a bit lagged on tiny-init,
but I should have a releasable version shortly.  The tiniest-login.{c,h}
files are there because I started to rewrite tiny-login one night.

-Nat <ndf@linux.mit.edu>
