Jordan K. Hubbard
bd5706a78a
Make the menu height calculation actually work.
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Make a menu more self-explanatory at user request.
1996-07-11 18:37:48 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
a0e34b44a2
Better error checking in helpfile expander.
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Tart up some of the output a little.
1996-07-10 11:38:29 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
8d8c0ae3e6
Document new GENERIC
1996-07-10 09:41:18 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
7e2ea12650
Try to prevent the status line from jumping around quite so much.
1996-07-09 16:57:14 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
2126fabccf
Take compat dists out of the canned set - they seem to do more harm
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than good, actually, and those who actually need them can select them.
1996-07-09 16:29:00 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
758aa0bcd0
Update docs to match.
1996-07-09 14:34:58 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
8658743f95
A number of improvements in the way statistics are printed, add a "chroot"
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option for installing distributions and/or packages to somewhere other than /,
say for a case where you're installing to an external disk on some other
machine's behalf. More miscellaneous fixes to various problems I stumbled
across while adding this stuff.
1996-07-09 14:28:22 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
b03b2096b8
Don't freak out at the lack of root/swap/usr if we're running multiuser
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and simply adding another disk.
1996-07-09 07:17:03 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
bbb2e49792
Eradicate more lurking bogons.
1996-07-09 03:07:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
359433b8c1
Update the documentation here and there.
1996-07-08 12:00:47 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
16e63bb830
Same tweak.
1996-07-08 11:07:08 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
de4342fa44
Fix even more lurking bogons - why do I never find these until the last
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possible minute? :-)
1996-07-08 10:08:22 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
cf1647cd2f
Whoops! Now that I'm decompressing docs into /tmp, it's important to
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make sure that /tmp is there first! :-) While I'm at it, clean up the
somewhat inexplicably bogus Mkdir() function.
1996-07-08 08:54:36 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
2dc1c61598
Support compressed doc files again.
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Add a few strategic screen clears.
Do a lot less wasted screen I/O in restoring screen contents that don't need
restoring.
Use tar instead of cp to back up /etc in installUpdate.
Don't panic when upgrade shell exits.
1996-07-05 08:36:02 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
bd8a3bdca2
Update docs (more specifically to -current).
1996-07-05 01:24:41 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
b95fc60906
Fix some minor reported bogons from the BETA
1996-07-04 23:12:05 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
dd74699f76
Untabify.
1996-07-02 10:59:26 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
fdc0e7826c
Document shortcuts.
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Fix a bug which prevented variables from working properly
1996-07-02 10:57:58 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
9accf5ed92
Add an extra /etc/hosts entry per advice of Joerg.
1996-07-02 09:12:34 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
3b307053cb
Make it plainer how to exit.
1996-07-02 01:03:55 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
66e36f2fac
Update the Lynx version number.
1996-06-29 03:49:39 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
210b37a437
Put my changes back - Thanks, Peter! Boy, an errant Tag sure can mess
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you up! :-)
1996-06-29 03:43:25 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
d08b90a2c6
Sync with 2.1-stable (I commited my changes there first by mistake due to
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an errant CVS tag file).
1996-06-29 02:53:09 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
16805608c8
Copy the documentation files up into the release area - I've been doing
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this by hand all along. Silly.
1996-06-29 02:22:48 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
446321c613
Add 3rd South Africa mirror.
1996-06-27 07:03:44 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
0006fae5d6
Allow argv[0] to be a command also.
1996-06-26 09:09:30 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
48800325a6
Make "Fake" turn off more potentially system-nuking options.
1996-06-25 18:41:10 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
d3688aae1c
Handle tabs in INDEX files.
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Display full, un-truncated version of description in status line.
1996-06-25 04:28:23 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
79bde569ad
ack - left in a typo. Time for bed!
1996-06-17 23:04:24 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
ce4e6b1773
Init network at proper time.
1996-06-17 21:48:33 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
6da0e3ac2e
Whups! Slight adjustment.
1996-06-17 19:33:27 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
271d660404
Add more items to the glossary menu and reformat it slightly.
1996-06-17 19:31:34 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
e5ce154ce5
Add a top level function index.
1996-06-16 23:17:35 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
62a613ae43
Check network status earlier in FTP/NFS installs in order to reduce
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user frustration.
1996-06-16 21:57:35 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
5dd5cdca60
Change default user/group to ones that actually exist in default passwd
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file.
1996-06-15 17:58:51 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
59fed81d91
Make the CDROM auto-detection code a little more flexible about accepting
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old CDs.
1996-06-14 18:23:26 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
bd71bd2513
Don't use some of the low-contrast text attributes I was using before - they
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apparently look bad on some LCD screens. While I'm in there, tweak and adjust
a number of other minor interface details which have been bothering me for
awhile.
1996-06-14 14:34:03 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
16bf435eeb
Make the editor work again and we're done.
1996-06-13 17:36:28 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
0447d04bb0
Uh, this is what I was really thinking when I made the device registration
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changes - honest! :-)
1996-06-13 17:07:41 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
6104d72491
Correct some embarassing 3am english.
1996-06-13 13:45:16 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
78dc4171c3
Dispense with the special case handling of cuaa* devices by synthesizing
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separate entries for sl0 and ppp0 on each device.
1996-06-12 17:09:34 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
56a94b026b
Some stuff I left out of the last commit - make toggle options toggle
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again instead of simply letting you set them and staying that way forever.
1996-06-12 14:20:20 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
061e2fb9a6
Fix a truly stupid bug which broke the package installation menu
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for everything _but_ the multi-user case now (it was the opposite before :-).
That means adding packages with the 2.2-960511-SNAP boot floppy is busted. Feh.
1996-06-12 14:02:13 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
7c8d89b09b
handle a message box which can potentially go past 80 cols.
1996-06-12 07:03:44 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
5d9009a72c
Put in a strategic dialog_clear() to prevent screen corruption reported
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by Joerg.
1996-06-11 13:07:57 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
62c09b388a
Change some verbiage slightly.
1996-06-11 10:16:53 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
824934f901
A slight error in my logic had me using color text attributes on Hercules
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monochrome displays. Whoops! Fix.
1996-06-11 09:47:30 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
bcb0ff9887
Misc doc cleanup.
1996-06-11 08:02:09 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
3ee8cec854
Come up with a scheme for stamping the FreeBSD version number on CDs,
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allowing sysinstall to automagically detect, mount and select an
appropriate FreeBSD CDROM as the installation media. Defining "appropriate"
also requires that you check the version numbers since an older FreeBSD
CD could be in the drive, which is the purpose of this patch.
1996-06-11 05:06:32 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
dabbacad12
Implement selective text attributes for the syscons vty / vt100 emulator
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selection since an attribute which looks good on a color console doesn't
necessarily look good in an xterm.
1996-06-08 09:08:51 +00:00