From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 15 20:18:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA02028 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 20:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02020 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 20:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA21739; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:18:22 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604160348.NAA21739@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: A lame hack ... To: tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:18:22 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tam Weng Seng" at Apr 15, 96 04:37:07 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tam Weng Seng stands accused of saying: > Yeah, I know that this is a lame hack ... but since people > have menentioned how ugly modifying files in /etc can get, and I > really need to learn a lot more, before I can do something serious, > I thought I would try starting here ... Editing the files is easy. It's understanding what goes in them thats nontrivial. This isn't really something that a 'pretty' editor can help with, unfortunately. > ~ ~ Live long and prosper.... tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[