Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 21:03:07 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <200210092003.g99K37hb016790@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20021009195200.GJ20787@zot.electricrain.com> ; from Chris Doherty <chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net> "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:52:00 PDT." References: <20021009195200.GJ20787@zot.electricrain.com>
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> > Rain looks ridiculous on a VTY. Last time it looked ok was on a 9600 > > baud terminal. > > from the man page: > > The output of rain is modeled after the VAX/VMS program of the same > name. To obtain the proper effect, either the terminal must be set > for 9600 baud or the -d option must be used to specify a delay, in > milliseconds, between each update. A reasonable delay is 120; the > default is 0. You learn something every day :-). > it looks fine with the delay. I've seen prettier screensavers. Star_saver for one. But if you like it, it may be worth turning into Yet Another Screensaver. Any volunteers? > I like the games, although as long as they're easily available and things > like "fortune" and "primes" stick around (preferably in /usr/games, > because otherwise I'll just end up making my own /usr/games directory and > symlinking those files from /usr/bin or wherever, because they're in > /usr/games on every other system and I'm not really interested in having > FreeBSD be pointlessly different if I can help it). I'm not planning on taking out the "utilityish" games (plus fortune). BINDIR will stay at /usr/games for the time being. I have no plans to change tat at all, in fact. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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