From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 26 21:11:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA02367 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 21:11:38 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA02328 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 21:11:29 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id FAA03576; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:04:32 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511270504.FAA03576@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Thoughts on the install and on Red Hat Linux. To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:04:32 +0000 () Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511270409.UAA19883@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 26, 95 08:09:08 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1184 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > > > Can we re-open the traditional (heh heh) dialog on this topic? > there was movement at the station for the word had got around..... Old Regret? Now that's just too prophetic 8) > > > 2. I think we need to sit down and devise a list of tcl commands, > I think that an install disk with a single executable > linked with tclX, should be able to do all the installation :) I think that Jordan's looking at a bigger picture here; particularly with reference to the "toolchest" concept. > have builtin tcl scripts for all the usual commands.. > (add tk when a server is found :) Or, more accurately, start with formint_tty or formint_ncurses, and then swap to formint_tk if/when X is started. (Am I beginning to sound like a scratchy record? sorry 8( ) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[