From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 11: 0:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from metriclient-1.uoregon.edu (metriclient-1.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C0A155A5 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by metriclient-1.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.8.7) id LAA09966; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990811110000.05858@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:00:00 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Nate Williams Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... References: <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org> <199908111729.LAA29297@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199908111729.LAA29297@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 11:29:04AM -0600 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams scribbled this message on Aug 11: > > : The line wrapping stuff I brought back for the EISA bus stuff in -current > > : makes it easy to define the wrap point. If some small number of people > > : want the ability to wrap at 132 or 40 or whatever, I don't think its > > : unreasonable to provide them the knob to tweak in the boot loader. > > > > Despite what nate think about 80 columns, my PDA cannot display more > > than between 30-45 characters, depending on the font, so having a knob > > for that would be useful in the long term. > > And you plan on booting FreeBSD on your PDA? I've booted my FreeBSD box w/ my hp48... and that can't do more than about 34 columns in a sucky 3x5 or 4x5 font... and it works great... :) right now my hp48 is the only serial device that I can get close enough to my server, and I don't have any free slots for a mono or vga card.. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message