From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 15:15:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A4F737B9C2 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.57] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ea860812 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:15:14 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA01566; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:15:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: "Kevin Oberman" , R Joseph Wright Subject: Re: how ??? Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:12:48 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: John Purser , "'sean park'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200002292002.MAA09115@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <200002292002.MAA09115@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00022918150504.00702@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Totally off-topic, a very popular OS of the 1980s had a system > parameter that was in units of micro-fortnights. Rather than waste BW > posting followups, it was VMS and the parameter was one that specified > how long to wait for the time to be entered on the console before > continuing with the bootstrap (TIMEPROMPTWAIT). > > I'll leave the translation of uFortnights into more common units as > an exercise to the reader. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > I wrote a short c++ program to solve that, and the darned thing said that uFortnights were equal to uCalends / 2 ! Where's the Tylenol? -- Walter Brameld in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message