From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 19 23:41:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA17182 for current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 23:41:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA17168; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 23:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id SAA00462; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:11:07 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701200741.SAA00462@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: VM bogon? Was: Re: NIS breakage In-Reply-To: <199701200721.SAA16658@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jan 20, 97 06:21:26 pm" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:11:06 +1030 (CST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.org, dyson@FreeBSD.org, mark@grondar.za, peter@FreeBSD.org, peter@spinner.dialix.com, wpaul@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > > Fixing support for "?" fields is more important (you can't edit fields > that are "?" when visual userconfig is started, and you can't change > fields to "?" because the range checking and/or field width doesn't > allow 0xffffffff and the input checking doesn't allow -1). Try changing > the port of lpt0 to 0x378 and back to -1. This is a direct result of a discussion thread in which I attempted to ascertain a suitable set of values for "not useful" and "find it yourself", the net result of which was your insistence that there was no suitable value for either and that neither should be allowed. If you have a new tune, please start piping. I have no problem at all with supporting arbitrary 'magic' values, and allowing the user to specify these in an unambiguous and visually obvious fashion. > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[