proof of concept
From
Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to
August Abolins on Wed Oct 14 02:09:07 2026
Hey August!
I took the liberty of writing a simple bash script that uses busybox's 'stty' and 'expand' to recreate the output of busybox so that it's output is restricted to 72 charater width suitable for typical fidonet quoting. It seems to be working at this end.
----- Output of DOS-think.sh starts
BusyBox v1.38.0 (2026-10-09 00:54:41 UTC) multi-call binary.
BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2015.
Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed
copyright notices.
Usage: busybox [function [arguments]...]
or: busybox --list[-full]
or: busybox --show SCRIPT
or: busybox --install [-s] [DIR]
or: function [arguments]...
BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix
utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a
link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox
will act like whatever it was invoked as.
Currently defined functions:
[, [[, acpid, add-shell, addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, arch,
arp, arping, ascii, ash, awk, base32, base64, basename, bc,
beep, blkdiscard, blkid, blockdev, bootchartd, brctl, bunzip2,
bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, chat, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown,
chpasswd, chpst, chroot, chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm,
conspy, cp, cpio, crc32, crond, crontab, cryptpw, cttyhack,
cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, depmod,
devmem, df, dhcprelay, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsd,
dnsdomainname, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap,
dumpleases, echo, ed, egrep, eject, env, envdir, envuidgid,
ether-wake, expand, expr, factor, fakeidentd, fallocate, false,
fatattr, fbset, fbsplash, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgconsole,
fgrep, find, findfs, flock, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck,
fsck.minix, fsfreeze, fstrim, fsync, ftpd, ftpget, ftpput,
fuser, getfattr, getopt, getty, grep, groups, gunzip, gzip,
halt, hd, hdparm, head, hexdump, hexedit, hostid, hostname,
httpd, hush, hwclock, i2cdetect, i2cdump, i2cget, i2cset,
i2ctransfer, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifenslave, ifplugd, ifup,
inetd, init, insmod, install, ionice, iostat, ip, ipaddr,
ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, ipneigh, iproute, iprule,
iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill, killall, killall5, klogd, last, less,
link, linux32, linux64, linuxrc, ln, loadfont, loadkmap,
logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, lpd, lpq, lpr, ls,
lsattr, lsblk, lsmod, lsof, lspci, lsscsi, lsusb, lzcat, lzma,
lzop, makedevs, makemime, man, md5sum, mdev, mesg, microcom,
mim, mkdir, mkdosfs, mke2fs, mkfifo, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.minix,
mkfs.vfat, mknod, mkpasswd, mkswap, mktemp, modinfo, modprobe,
more, mount, mountpoint, mpstat, mt, mv, nameif, nanddump,
nandwrite, nbd-client, nc, netstat, nice, nl, nmeter, nohup,
nologin, nproc, nsenter, nslookup, ntpd, od, openvt, partprobe,
passwd, paste, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress,
pivot_root, pkill, pmap, popmaildir, poweroff, powertop,
printenv, printf, ps, pscan, pstree, pwd, pwdx, raidautorun,
rdate, rdev, readahead, readlink, readprofile, realpath,
reboot, reformime, remove-shell, renice, reset, resize, resume,
rev, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, rtcwake, run-init,
run-parts, runlevel, runsv, runsvdir, rx, script, scriptreplay,
sed, seedrng, sendmail, seq, setarch, setconsole, setfattr,
setfont, setkeycodes, setlogcons, setpriv, setserial, setsid,
setuidgid, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha3sum,
sha512sum, showkey, shred, shuf, slattach, sleep, smemcap,
softlimit, sort, split, ssl_client, ssl_server,
start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, su, sulogin, sum, sv,
svc, svlogd, svok, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl,
syslogd, tac, tail, tar, taskset, tcpsvd, tee, telnet, telnetd,
test, tftp, tftpd, time, timeout, top, touch, tr, traceroute,
traceroute6, tree, true, truncate, ts, tsort, tty, ttysize,
tunctl, ubiattach, ubidetach, ubimkvol, ubirename, ubirmvol,
ubirsvol, ubiupdatevol, udhcpc, udhcpc6, udhcpd, udpsvd,
uevent, umount, uname, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlink,
unlzma, unshare, unxz, unzip, uptime, users, usleep, uudecode,
uuencode, uuidgen, vconfig, vi, vlock, vmstat, volname, w,
wall, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, who, whoami, whois,
xargs, xxd, xz, xzcat, yes, zcat, zcip
Life is good,
Maurice
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--- GNU bash, version 5.3.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
* Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001)
