From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 2 03:01:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA17151 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 03:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA17141 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 03:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA07049; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:57:50 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA10844; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:03:25 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19971002110324.14949@strand.iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:03:24 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new command: doconfig References: <19971002094919.21626@strand.iii.co.uk> <27384.875785593@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76e In-Reply-To: <27384.875785593@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 02:46:33AM -0700 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 02:46:33AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Is this anything that "The Dotfile generator" (it's in ports, and a web > > page is at http://www.imada.ou.dk/~blackie/dotfile/) could handle? It's > > not something I've ever used (lack of round tuits) but it looks possible. > > The dotfile generator does indeed supply a pretty cute approach to > solving the problem of creating generic config file editors. Powerful > enough to do a kernel configurator in? I don't know - I haven't > looked at it *that* closely. I wouldn't discourage anyone else from > doing so, however. :) I'll cheerfully put it on my list of interesting things to do. Currently, however, I'm trying to work out why, given 2 copies of src.tgz on different machines but with identical MD5 checksums, extracting it on one machine works with no problems, and on another certain files are replaced with binary rubbish. This is slowing down my 'make world' somewhat . Particularly as this second machine is nowhere near anything 'net connected, and I have to do all file transfers by parallel port Zip drive every 18 hours or so. . . This is with an ASUSTeK P6UP5-P6 Pentium Pro Mainboard with the NCR SCSI BIOS (no idea of version at the moment, I didn't note the info) running on a (for the moment) 2.2.2-RELEASE system. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- And I'd have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those pesky kids.