Subj : proof of concept
To   : August Abolins
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Oct 14 2026 02:09 am

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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