Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 11:29:58 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM bogon? Was: Re: NIS breakage Message-ID: <199701220059.LAA10159@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199701211626.DAA11690@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jan 22, 97 03:26:59 am"
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > >I think it would be reasonable to lump "?" and "none" under the euphemism > >"auto" for now. The key '?' is already taken (help screen) in another > >context, and 'a' is valid hex. Would 'x' be acceptable? > > I'd like 0x to mean hex and blanking out the 0x prompt to work. Then > entering a blank field could mean "auto"/"none". That's doable, but less pretty. Now that 'sprintf' works properly in the kernel, there's room for some improvement. I don't know whether I'd be ready for 2.2-GAMMA with it, but I'll give it a bash. Is there general consensus that users will understand the need to enter '0x' in front of hex values? strtoul() in (the old) userconfig is somewhat broken I think; is it legal to say : unsigned long acc; ... acc = -acc; ... or is this just taking advantage of gcc? > It would be as natural for Del to delete fields as well drivers > (i.e., unnatural :-). If I could find a "better" key for it, I would 8) > Del is fairly useless as an editing key (unless > the Backspace key generates it) since the field editor is so primitive > that Del is equivalent to Backspace. It has to be to cover all the possible misconfigurations of serial terminals. Of the collection I tested with, I met some that could be convinced to emit either BS or DEL, some had keys for both, and one unit had a "<-" key which emitted DEL only. > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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