Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 00:29:10 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cskinner@bml.ca (Chris K. Skinner), csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, support@cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Documentation and Installation of "Everything" to 2.1 Gig drive. Message-ID: <6517.832922950@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 May 1996 07:20:15 BST." <27014.832918815@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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> Just don't, whatever you do, try to use libdialog (the library version > of the dialog program for use in other programs). You'll bash your > head against it for long hours and then want to commit mass murder (or > go for another pizza, depending on your personality). I fail to see how these two activities are limited to an either/or proposition. :-) Also, to give libdialog its fair(er) due, you should try using it now that the C-user's API has been bolted on. All the callback grot is handled for you, as are pesky details like restoring screen contents and such. No more tearing strings apart to see which menu option was invoked. :-) > better description). My reservations come from some of your > ideas. Setting up a simple DNS (e.g. for the private net 10) is a Hey, whoa - watch your attribution, putting the happy face on DNS wasn't _my_ idea, it was Mr. Skinner's, I was only talking about how one might go about doing it. 8-) I definitely wouldn't want to try and write an autoconfiguration tool for DNS myself! > Some other parts of the system are equally nasty (sendmail.cf spring > to mind immediately). A basic editor for the M4 sendmail configuration I think you could get quite a bit of mileage out of just spitting out the canned directives from a question tree - "Are you a uucp site?" "Do you have any aliases for this site?" and so on. > It strikes me there are TWO programs needed here. One for a freshly > installed system, and one to re-configure an existing system. I have no fundamental problems with that model.. Jordan
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