From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 25 16:06:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA27450 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:06:03 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA27435 ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:05:57 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA07860; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:03:52 -0700 To: John Fieber cc: Gary Palmer , stable@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Oct 20 snap install... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:48:41 CDT." Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:03:52 -0700 Message-ID: <7858.814662232@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > It looks like its time for me to learn about boot code whether I want to > or not! You'll enjoy it, trust me! :) > Wrong answer. The people who need passive don't need the documentation. > The rest, and that would be the majority, will do like I did and go "Huh? > What the hell is the difference between active and passive ftp?" and not > know which one to select appropriate. In fact, a better alternative would > be to rephrase the options to be less cryptic, e.g.: OK, here's what the relevant chunk of menus.c looks like now: { "FTP Active", "Install from an FTP server in active mode", DMENU_CALL, mediaSetFTPActive, 0, 0 }, { "FTP Passive", "Install through a firewall in passive FTP mode", DMENU_CALL, mediaSetFTPPassive, 0, 0 }, Will that do? I'll also ammend the media menu, as you suggested. Please also note that documentation enhancement requests that are accompanied by *the actual text* will always get priority treatment from me! :-) Jordan