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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
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