From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 31 09:05:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03790 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03774 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:05:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA04784; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:05:13 -0800 (PST) To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:02:03 +0100." Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:05:13 -0800 Message-ID: <4780.886266313@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > And what about the following: we could split this message into two parts - > first would be displayed by default, and would contain the nice greeting > message with two or three most common examples of usage. The second part > would be available under 'help' command, and would display the usual > stuff... Sure, gosh, I think we have at least 300 bytes left in the boot blocks to implement a help command parser with. Bruce? Do you remember the exact count? :-) Jordan