Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:26:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... Message-ID: <199810061526.IAA03441@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:18:06 %2B0200." <199810061018.MAA00975@semyam.dinoco.de>
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> > 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
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