From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 29 22:36:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14830 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:36:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles313.castles.com [208.214.167.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA14821 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:36:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10825; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:33:19 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808292233.WAA10825@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Masafumi NAKANE/=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Aug 1998 03:15:23 +0900." <19980830031523G.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:33:18 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > For the installation, I can appreciate that this is an > > excellent idea, and it should be quite easy to add these to the > > release makefile. > > Yes. I looked at the Makefile and could think of some ways to easily > achieve this. But since I'm not too sure what would be the > appropriate way (or cosmetically best way), I'd like to leave it to > someone who are more familiar with the release Makefile. Down towards the bottom of the doMFSKERN target, the boot.help file is copied into the boot images. Just do @echo \07\07 >> ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE}/boot.help (And if you were reading that entire makefile with a braille screen reader, or a speech synth, I think you deserve some serious compliments.) > > This, I expect along with a number of other things, would make > > a good start for an "accessibility pack", or a set of > > accessibility-related customisations which should be > > configurable at install time. > > Yep. This increase the possibility for more blind individuals to > start using our system and then we can get more input and help from > them. Definitely. Even complaints about what's wrong with it right now are a good start. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message