From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 7 16:46:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02301512E; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:46:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id QAA26809; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA05336; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:46:32 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA15337; Wed, 7 Jul 99 16:46:30 PDT Message-Id: <37830CE9.480EF78A@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 02:16:41 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Chris Costello , Doug , Alex Zepeda , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'rtfm' script References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > Thanks! But still, I don't think rtfm is very appropriate... Can we look > > for something better, more obvious? Or perhaps it would be in the motd > > like /stand/sysinstall is.... people would need to be aware of this. > > it can be called anything. the new user isn't going to know it unless > refered to it. (or unless there is a question mark to click) Now there's an idea! Someone wanna code up wmrtfm real quick? It should start an rxvt (if available) or xterm running rtfm on strings that are dropped onto or pasted into the dock icon. You know, being a program designer is a WHOLE lot easier than being a programmer. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message