From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 16 1:44:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.plaut.de (ns.plaut.de [194.99.75.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA0637B407; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.plaut.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id KAA09714; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:43:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@nihil.plaut.de) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by nihil.plaut.de (8.11.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id f8G8hRA12955; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:43:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@nihil) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:43:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Reifenberger To: Warner Losh Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , , Subject: Re: Multiple kernels selector... In-Reply-To: <200109160636.f8G6akW20252@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: <20010916103459.P12856-100000@nihil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <39B51E16.E8AD4BC8@newsguy.com> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : ." Loading /boot/current.conf. Please wait..." cr > : s" /boot/current.conf" read-conf > > What's the difference beteen ." and s"? A . dot command does print the TOS (Top of Stack) usually. ."" does print a constant string. So ."FOO" does print FOO. s"" does put a constant string on top of the stack. Which seemd to get used by read-conf later on. I hope my memory didn't fool me here. Bye! ---- Michael Reifenberger ^.*Plaut.*$, IT, R/3 Basis, GPS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message