From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 2 02:47:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA16662 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 02:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA16655 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 02:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id CAA27405; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 02:46:34 -0700 (PDT) To: nik@iii.co.uk cc: Brandon Gillespie , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new command: doconfig In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 09:49:19 BST." <19971002094919.21626@strand.iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 02:46:33 -0700 Message-ID: <27384.875785593@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, Oct 01, 1997 at 03:14:44PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > It should also build the configuration file through a complete > > interactive Q&A process if you don't have one. > > Is this anything that "The Dotfile generator" (it's in ports, and a web > page is at http://www.imada.ou.dk/~blackie/dotfile/) could handle? It's > not something I've ever used (lack of round tuits) but it looks possible. The dotfile generator does indeed supply a pretty cute approach to solving the problem of creating generic config file editors. Powerful enough to do a kernel configurator in? I don't know - I haven't looked at it *that* closely. I wouldn't discourage anyone else from doing so, however. :) Jordan