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From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
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On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 03:29:50 -0800
Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:

Hi Terry et al,

> Let me know the form you want the hierarchy to take, so
> you can stick it into the GTK hierarchy thingy; I'll be
> happy to crank out some quick yacc and lex code to do
> the parsing of the file into that format for you.  A
> structure definition, with links, and how you want it
> linked, would be ideal.  8-).

I've been thinking about it and I'd like to provide two frontends, a GTK one and a ncurses one, what do you think?

> 
> Something like:
> 
> 	typedef enum _nodekind {
> 		NK_VALUE,		/* Path component */
> 		NK_KEY,			/* Key */

> [.....]
> 			struct node *child;
> 			int intval;
> 			char *strval;
> 			struct wcval *wcval;
> 		} u;
> 	};
> 

It looks fine to me.

Is your idea to manage rc.conf from there or maybe sysctl variables could be added too (once a working version of the rc.conf thing is made, of course).

Cheers,

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