From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 13: 5:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD09037B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A1843E42 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g99K5AW1049525; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:05:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with UUCP id g99K5Avb049524; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:05:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g99K37hb016790; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:03:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200210092003.g99K37hb016790@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. References: <20021009195200.GJ20787@zot.electricrain.com> In-Reply-To: <20021009195200.GJ20787@zot.electricrain.com> ; from Chris Doherty "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:52:00 PDT." Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 21:03:07 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Rain looks ridiculous on a VTY. Last time it looked ok was on a 9600 > > baud terminal. > > from the man page: > > The output of rain is modeled after the VAX/VMS program of the same > name. To obtain the proper effect, either the terminal must be set > for 9600 baud or the -d option must be used to specify a delay, in > milliseconds, between each update. A reasonable delay is 120; the > default is 0. You learn something every day :-). > it looks fine with the delay. I've seen prettier screensavers. Star_saver for one. But if you like it, it may be worth turning into Yet Another Screensaver. Any volunteers? > I like the games, although as long as they're easily available and things > like "fortune" and "primes" stick around (preferably in /usr/games, > because otherwise I'll just end up making my own /usr/games directory and > symlinking those files from /usr/bin or wherever, because they're in > /usr/games on every other system and I'm not really interested in having > FreeBSD be pointlessly different if I can help it). I'm not planning on taking out the "utilityish" games (plus fortune). BINDIR will stay at /usr/games for the time being. I have no plans to change tat at all, in fact. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message