From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 17:37:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA00292 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:37:53 -0800 (PST) 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 RAA00281 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:37:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA19665; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:10:10 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602150140.MAA19665@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: kbdcontrol change To: angio@aros.net (Dave Andersen) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:10:10 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, angio@aros.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602150003.RAA04545@terra.aros.net> from "Dave Andersen" at Feb 14, 96 05:03:59 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dave Andersen stands accused of saying: > > > kbdcontrol -f 1 "cd /\nls\ncd\n" > > > > But what's wrong with "cd /;nls;ncd" ?? > > It still won't handle the trailing return correctly, and it won't work Doh! Of course. > I just feel that it's a change that lends some more functionality > without causing any problems. And I think it'd be a welcome one based on > the email I got from someone else. Not disagreeing there. > -Dave Andersen -- ]] 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. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[