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Date:      Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:26:49 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... 
Message-ID:  <199810061526.IAA03441@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:18:06 %2B0200." <199810061018.MAA00975@semyam.dinoco.de> 

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> > It can contain commands for this program; you can get a brief summary 
> > of these by typing '?' at the loader prompt.  More complete help is 
> > still on the whiteboard.
> 
> How stable is the command and variable set?  Anything serious going to
> change or could one just think about making the help facility work by
> adding the text?

I think that some help text would be good.  I hadn't decided whether
a structured help approach (ie. 'help' gives summary, 'help foo' gives 
help on foo') might not be better.

> And while doing so I think ít shouldn't use /boot.help but instead
> something like /boot/help.txt to make all boot related files live in
> one place when the new bootstrap code is finished and unclutter /.  I
> was suprised to have a help command which told me how to use the
> bootstrap code I used to load it.  That's no exactly the help I was
> asking for at that moment.  ;-)

No, I can appreciate that.  8)  The help file path should definitely 
change.

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