Re: Minimal system (was Re: Basic questions before start)

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:49, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:25, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Gogulus wrote:
[snip]
> > How could he do local and remote access in PHP?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. Local and remote access of postgresql?
> that's easy. But do you mean something else? I'm just talking about
> using ncurses from a command line.
>
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.ncurses.php

This was all predicated upon my not knowing that there is a stand-
alone PHP...

> If you HAVE to have graphics, you can use gtk too, but that would need
> X11.
>
> http://gtk.php.net/
>
> > Wouldn't a local
> > Apache server (which takes more RAM) be necessary?
>
> PHP doesn't need apache any more than Python needs Zope. PHP can run from
> the command line just like perl, python, etc... We write most of our
> system maintenance and cron job stuff in it. :-)
>
> But even if you did run apache, a local server uses about 1M per child
> (only need one, two max) and that's more than usual. On a box JUST
> running apache/php with both stripped down, you're probably looking at
> ~650k or so per child.
>
> > Also regarding PHP, "links" is a great text-mode web browser that
> > handles style sheets and frames.
>
> I'll have to look it up.

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