Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 1997 18:31:51 -0500 (EST) | | From | James Mastros <> | | Subject | Re: Suggestion for handling of boot-time driver options |
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On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Grant R. Guenther wrote: > > Any suggestions, objections, flames? > > I'd also like to see a small syntactic enhancement. It should also > be possible to set parameters with a notation like: > > ez.base=0x378 > > Which would be _exactly_ equivalent to > > ez=base,0x378 > Also, ez.base=0x378, ez.base=888, and ez.base=01570 are the same thing. This requires typing for parameters, as changing the string 888 to 0x378 would be a Bad Thing <G>. Also, understanding quotes is a Good Thing, though I dont belive there are any pramaters where spaces are valid.
Also, a conversion-type for IP-addresses (123.123.123.123 to 7b7b7b7b), and ethernet hw-addrs (iff there is >1 canonical way of writing them) there should be (sinus infection preventing me from proper english writhing and germinish sounding (even though my german is english-sounding).
-=- James Mastros -- When the annals of distributed computing are written, and the name 'Bovine' appears in there, I can say "Hey, I was a part of that, I checked .0012% of the keyspace". -=- Brian Wilson <wilsonb@mindspring.net> Go to www.distributed.net before I come make you!
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