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| 4 | <h3>External Tiny Utilities</h3>
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[1765] | 6 | This is a list of tiny utilities whose functionality is not provided by
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| 7 | busybox. If you have additional suggestions, please send an e-mail to our
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[821] | 8 | dev mailing list.
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| 10 | <br><br>
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[1765] | 12 | <table border=1>
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[821] | 13 | <tr>
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| 14 | <th>Feature</th>
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| 15 | <th>Utilities</th>
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| 16 | </tr>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <tr>
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| 19 | <td>SSH</td>
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[1765] | 20 | <td><a href="http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/">Dropbear</a> has both an ssh server and an ssh client that together come in around 100k. It has no external
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| 21 | dependencies (I.E. it does not depend on OpenSSL, using a built-in copy of
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| 22 | LibTomCrypt instead). It's actively maintained, with a quiet but responsive
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| 23 | mailing list.</td>
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[821] | 24 | </tr>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <tr>
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| 27 | <td>SMTP</td>
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[1765] | 28 | <td><a href="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/">ssmtp</a> is an extremely simple Mail Transfer Agent.</td>
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[821] | 29 | </tr>
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| 30 |
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[1765] | 31 | <tr>
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| 32 | <td>ntp</td>
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| 33 | <td><a href="http://doolittle.icarus.com/ntpclient/">ntpclient</a> is a
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| 34 | tiny ntp client. BusyBox has rdate to set the date from a remote server, but
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| 35 | if you want a daemon to repeatedly adjust the clock over time, try that.</td>
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[821] | 36 | </table>
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| 38 | <p>In a gui environment, you'll probably want a web browser.
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| 39 | <a href="http://www.konqueror.org/embedded/">Konqueror Embedded</a> requires QT
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| 40 | (or QT Embedded), but not KDE. The <a href="http://www.dillo.org/">Dillo</a>
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| 41 | requires GTK+, but not Gnome. Or you can try the <a href="http://links.twibright.com/">graphical
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| 42 | version of links</a>.</p>
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[1765] | 44 | <h3>SCRIPTING LANGUAGES</h3>
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| 45 | <p>Although busybox has built-in support for shell scripts, plenty of other
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| 46 | small scripting languages are available on the net. A few examples:</p>
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| 47 | <table border=1>
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| 48 | <tr>
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| 49 | <th><language></th>
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| 50 | <th><description></th>
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| 51 | </tr>
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| 52 | <tr>
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| 53 | <td> <a href=http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0003.html>microperl</a> </td>
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| 54 | <td> A small standalone perl interpreter that can be built from the perl source
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| 55 | s via "make -f Makefile.micro". If you really feel the need for perl on an embe
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| 56 | dded system, this is where to start.
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| 57 | </tr>
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| 58 | <tr>
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| 60 | <td><a href=http://www.lua.org/pil/>Lua</a></td>
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| 61 | <td>If you just want a small embedded scripting language to write <em>new</en>
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| 62 | code in, this Brazilian import is lightweight, fairly popular, and has
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| 63 | a complete book about it online.</td>
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| 64 | </tr>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <tr>
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| 67 | <td><a href= http://www.star.le.ac.uk/%7Etjg/rc/>rc</a></td>
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| 68 | <td>The PLAN9 shell. Not compatible with conventional bourne shell syntax,
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| 69 | but fairly lightweight and small.</td>
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| 70 | </tr>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | </tr>
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| 73 | <tr>
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| 74 | <td><a href=http://www.forth.org>forth</a></td>
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| 75 | <td>A well known language for fast and small programs, decades old but still
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| 76 | in use for everything from OpenBIOS to computer controlled engine timing.</td>
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| 77 | </tr>
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| 78 | </table>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <p>For more information, you probably want to look at
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| 81 | <a href=http://buildroot.uclibc.org>buildroot</a> and
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| 82 | <a href=http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo>TinyGentoo</a>, which
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| 83 | build and use tiny utilities for all sorts of things.</p>
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