From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 6 03:58:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18858 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 03:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA18847 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 03:58:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA10122; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:56:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:56:48 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ficl Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm watching all your work using ficl with a lot of interest, but I don't understand the operating environment of programs at that early stage of boot too well. Is the filesystem available? Can any use be made of other Unix utils at all? What devices are available? Obviously, screen input/output is *somewhat* available, right? Thanks ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message