Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:24:31 -0600 From: Ade Lovett <ade@demon.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <E0xymH1-0003m0-00@sphinx.lovett.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Feb 1998 09:29:42 %2B1030." <199801312259.JAA00405@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith writes:
>
>diffs like this are bogus; please use -c or -u.
Sorry about that. Had it in my head that 'cvs diff' would do
the right thing by itself - it's been a long couple of days :)
>However the idea's not bad. You could soup up the prompt a little so
>that "Enter 'help' for help" was there somewhere; having an otherwise
>hidden command would be a Big Lose.
I'd considered that, but thought it easier to add the relevant
information into the /boot.banner message. My testbox used:
==========================================================
--== Welcome to the 3.0-CURRENT version of FreeBSD ==--
A Full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32-bit Operating System
January 1998
FreeBSD Inc.
Type 'help' for more information
==========================================================
-aDe
--
Ade Lovett, Demon Internet, Austin, Texas.
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