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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:25:52 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FICL and setting BTX variables
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901121425080.19070-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <369B29E8.335B11E5@newsguy.com>

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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> > Mhm.. I'm not sure. One of the goals here is also to make the resulting
> > string as short as possible, because it directly influences the size of
> > /boot/loader later. The string doesn't have to be nicely formatted, it
> > just has to compile. So, I'd suggest gsub("\t"," ");
> 
> Let me come in Joe's defense here. :-) I told him that we wanted
> this really stripped, but I also mentioned that when I first got to
> replace this script, I decided to first write a 100% compatible
> replacement, and *then* apply patches to it, so the 100% compatible
> replacement would be in the repo.

Ok, you're right - I forgot it. Then, I don't have any objections.

Andrzej Bialecki

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