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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:24:31 -0600
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@demon.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot floppy banner 
Message-ID:  <E0xymH1-0003m0-00@sphinx.lovett.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Feb 1998 09:29:42 %2B1030." <199801312259.JAA00405@word.smith.net.au> 

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Mike Smith writes:
>
>diffs like this are bogus; please use -c or -u.

Sorry about that.  Had it in my head that 'cvs diff' would do
the right thing by itself - it's been a long couple of days :)

>However the idea's not bad.  You could soup up the prompt a little so 
>that "Enter 'help' for help" was there somewhere; having an otherwise 
>hidden command would be a Big Lose.

I'd considered that, but thought it easier to add the relevant
information into the /boot.banner message.  My testbox used:

==========================================================
 --== Welcome to the 3.0-CURRENT version of FreeBSD ==--
    A Full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32-bit Operating System

                     January 1998
                     FreeBSD Inc.

            Type 'help' for more information
==========================================================

-aDe

-- 
Ade Lovett, Demon Internet, Austin, Texas.



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