Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:43:21 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "E. J. Cerejo" <ejcerejo@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make World question Message-ID: <20020328223801.K1966-100000@hades> In-Reply-To: <3CA2D9A8.85EC589A@yahoo.com>
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On 2002-03-28 03:51, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > I'm following the instructions shown at > http://mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/mw.html to update freebsd-stable and > I only have a question on step 9 which says to do this: > > Update /etc > cp -Rp /etc /etc.old > mergemaster -v -w 132 (eliminate '-w 132' if 132x43 video mode is not > activated) > > I'm confused about this last line, how do I find out if my 132x43 video > is activated or not? Well, if you haven't enabled it, it's not :-) The -w option of mergemaster passes an alternate "terminal width" option to sdiff, the program that mergemaster uses to display differences when you do a merge. At home I have set my default console video mode to 132x25 because I like being able to read text/code that is more than 80 columns wide. This can be done by setting inn /etc/rc.conf the allscreens_flags="" option. hades:~$ grep allscr /etc/rc.conf | grep -v '^#' allscreens_flags="-c destructive -b black -r black white 132x25 white black" If you don't change this in your /etc/rc.conf, or use vidcontrol(1) in a console terminal, FreeBSD's console is 80 columns wide and can display 25 rows. Cheers, Giorgos. -- FreeBSD: The power to serve. -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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