From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 10:55: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7764F15560; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05227; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:53:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA29750; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:52:59 -0600 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:52:59 -0600 Message-Id: <199908111752.LAA29750@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Warner Losh Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), "Matthew N. Dodd" , Peter Wemm , Cameron Grant , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... In-Reply-To: <199908111744.LAA18270@harmony.village.org> References: <199908111729.LAA29297@mt.sri.com> <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org> <199908111744.LAA18270@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : stty columns is only effective *AFTER* you have a shell and the box has > : booted. > > Yes I know that, but you seem to be arguing that all terminals have 80 > columns... This is not the case, although many of them do. Most of them do. It is the 'least common denominator' that FreeBSD runs into. More than 132 columns is an exception, as well as less than 80 columns. My point was not changing the boot message to more than 80 columns, like you suggested. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message