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| 222 | 2 <p><b>January 2, 2008</b> - And <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2</a> is out. New applets include patch, touch, and sha1sum.</p> |
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| 200 | 4 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, |
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| 200 | 34 <p>The goal of the Toybox project is to create simple implementations of all |
| 35 the important Linux command line utilities. These implementations should | |
| 36 be small (the entire project should total less than a megabyte, uncompressed), | |
| 37 fast, simple, and correctly implemented (which is related to standards | |
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| 140 | 63 handle UTF-8, but otherwise we leave this to X11 and higher layers. And |
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| 74 count, df, dirname, dmesg, echo, false, hello, mkfifo, oneit, pwd, sha1sum, | |
| 75 sleep, sync, true, tty, which, yes.</p> | |
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| 77 <p>The following commands are partly implemented, in a somewhat usable but not | |
| 78 necessarily complete state: bzcat/bunzip2, help, mke2fs, netcat/nc, sh/toysh, | |
| 79 mdev, touch, readlink.</p> | |
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| 81 <p>The following are partially implemented commands that don't actually do | |
| 82 anything yet: mke2fs, md5sum.</p> | |
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| 84 <p>For more information, see <a href=todo.txt>the todo list</a>.</p> | |
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| 89 "exit". This is the largest single sub-project in toybox.</p> | |
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| 43 | 110 track what's going on with this project. There's also a |
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