From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 08:22:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05186 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:22:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles100.castles.com [208.214.165.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05144 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:22:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03441; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:26:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810061526.IAA03441@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Stefan Eggers cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:18:06 +0200." <199810061018.MAA00975@semyam.dinoco.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:26:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA05182 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It can contain commands for this program; you can get a brief summary > > of these by typing '?' at the loader prompt. More complete help is > > still on the whiteboard. > > How stable is the command and variable set? Anything serious going to > change or could one just think about making the help facility work by > adding the text? I think that some help text would be good. I hadn't decided whether a structured help approach (ie. 'help' gives summary, 'help foo' gives help on foo') might not be better. > And while doing so I think ít shouldn't use /boot.help but instead > something like /boot/help.txt to make all boot related files live in > one place when the new bootstrap code is finished and unclutter /. I > was suprised to have a help command which told me how to use the > bootstrap code I used to load it. That's no exactly the help I was > asking for at that moment. ;-) No, I can appreciate that. 8) The help file path should definitely change. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message