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4 | <h3>External Tiny Utilities</h3>
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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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8 | dev mailing list.
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10 | <br><br>
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11 |
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12 | <table border=1>
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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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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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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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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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29 | </tr>
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30 |
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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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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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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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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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72 | </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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