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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:34:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, 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:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908120032130.4840-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908112355580.81521-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so
> great about not seeing the system boot up?

The same reason that when you type 'cp foo /tmp/' it doesn't say '1 file
copied, 3425 bytes.' or other nonesense.  If nothings wrong then print
nothing.  Granted, you and I would have our 'boot_verbose' envar set to
'1' or '2' or something that gave us the correct amount of feedback we've
grown acustom to.

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| Matthew N. Dodd  | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD  |
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