Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:29:04 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... Message-ID: <199908111729.LAA29297@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111247560.14648-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org>
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> : The line wrapping stuff I brought back for the EISA bus stuff in -current > : makes it easy to define the wrap point. If some small number of people > : want the ability to wrap at 132 or 40 or whatever, I don't think its > : unreasonable to provide them the knob to tweak in the boot loader. > > Despite what nate think about 80 columns, my PDA cannot display more > than between 30-45 characters, depending on the font, so having a knob > for that would be useful in the long term. And you plan on booting FreeBSD on your PDA? > It also would allow one to kick the VGA display into 132 columns in > the boot loader and have more of a chance to get more of the boot > process on the screen. syscons already supports parts of this... My firewall doesn't have a VGA display. :( > There is no reason to hard code 80 into the kernel. Otherwise one > could argue why have stty columns at all :-). stty columns is only effective *AFTER* you have a shell and the box has booted. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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