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From: gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: new new scsi release beta2 part 1 of 5 (fixed)SKIP
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Date: 2 Oct 92 06:20:13 GMT
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In article <rwa.717885468@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>,
rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) writes:
> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
> >Currently, the command line configuration tools are abominable. I
> shouldn't
> >have to edit my file (hoping I have the right one) to change an IRQ
> or add
> >pty's, config it, change directories (making sure I get the one named
> the
> >same as my file), make depend, make, and then manually install the
> resulting
> >executable, remembering to delete the devices which are no longer
> applicable
> >to my new configuration, and adding the ones which are but did not
> exist
> >prior to the most recent rebuild.
>
> <yawn, another newbie...>
>
> If you can't handle it, admit you're an incompetent and stay out of
> the kitchen. You might change your silly mail address too; a wizard
> indeed! Real wizards don't so much as imagine that the simple list
> of
> trivial steps you mention are worth spending time on, much less
> kvetching about.
>
> Just run the GENERIC kernel, and leave the hacking to your betters.
This is a joke, right? Where are the happy faces?
If this is indeed serious, please let us know as soon as possible so
that we all
can add your name to our Author Kill Lists.
If you have something to say, try and do it in an adult sort of way, will ya?
That way, someone might listen.
Have a nice day.
--
Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
| great idea hits you, and just before you realize
| what is wrong with it.