Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 20:31:52 +0100 (BST) | From | John Sullivan <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.94.960614112951.803A-100000@vci.vistacom.fi> you write: >> In article <199606131535.LAA01225@nic.ott.hookup.net> you write: >> >> > driver in full working order. So can't we just replace "Ok.\n" with >> >> > "\r\e[K", which will wipe the message off the screen *if* the test >> >> > is successful. > >What's the use of the messages if you don't have a chance to read them?
If you read the rest of this thread, you will find that most of the time this message is pretty irrelevant anyway. The only time you really need to read it is when the machine dies *during* the test that prints the message. If the test succeeds, you can *then* erase the message. If the test fails for some reason, you will never be able to print the erase sequence since the machine will have locked.
If you actually want to see all the messages (this turns out to be useful in a patch I am preparing, since it relies on the boot sequence taking a certain amount of time otherwise the operator won't notice it, and on my machine it would zip by too fast), then just don't touch any patches which do this. Same for colourization (which I'm not too keen on myself, but with the right implementation you can easily choose you own, more tasteful, colour scheme). Lots of people obviously *do* want this though.
Happy?
John -- i built it up now i take it apart climbed up real high now fall down real far no need for me to stay the last thing left i just threw it away i put my faith in god and my trust in you now there's nothing more fucked up i could do <p><a href="http://callisto.girton.cam.ac.uk/users/js10039/">Me.</a>
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