What causes text table entries

[verve, enthusiasm, and gusto]

In SunOS 3.x, most of the SunView tools are linked together into two large
merged binaries: /usr/bin/suntools and /usr/bin/othertools.  If you run
multiple "programs" which are merged into a single binary (e.g.
selection_svc, sunview, shelltool) they only use up one text table slot.

On a limited memory system you can get a big performance improvement by
making a custom "toolmerge" binary of the set of Sun and non-Sun tools you
normally run.  (You have to trim down any non-Sun tools with large
data/bss first.)

David DiGiacomo, Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA  david at eng.sun.com