From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 19:57:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5316E16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:57:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D4D43D60 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:57:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id iAUJvkc29629; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:57:46 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200411301957.iAUJvkc29629@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: fcash@sd73.bc.ca (Freddie Cash) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:57:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200411301145.29136.fcash@sd73.bc.ca> from "Freddie Cash" at Nov 30, 2004 11:45:28 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jerry McAllister cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:57:50 -0000 > > On November 30, 2004 11:10 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Why is this such a big deal?? > > > No big deal. > > Sounds like you now have something to keep you busy over the > > holidays. When you get it all working, just submit it as a pr. There > > are instructions for submitting a change on the FreeBSD web site. > > > That's the way things work in the open source freeware community. > > It looks like Scott Long is doing something similar for -CURRENT. > > I don't know any forth, but I might be able to hack something up as > proof-of-concept kind of thingy. It can't really be all that hard can > it? :) The biggest problem might be having room for it in the place it must run. If it doesn't need to use/modify the boot block, then it should be easy. Hey, there are whole web sites out there about programming in forth. You can learn. I waded through it about 6 years ago, but don't remember much. If someone else is doing it, then give them a little encouragement and help if needed. That might be quicker than doing it yourself. By the way, probably bugs isn't the most appropriate place for this discussion. It ain't a bug. Questions maybe or look through the list of lists for a better place. ////jerry > > -- > Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. > School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] > fcash@sd73.bc.ca helpdesk@sd73.bc.ca