Re: manpage section-names

2021-10-30 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sat, 30 Oct 2021 20:32:23 -0500 (CDT) From:"Jeremy C. Reed" Message-ID: | n I didn't search for definition of "n" "new", back in about 1980... kre

Re: manpage section-names

2021-10-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I noticed that the manpage-reader at man.netbsd.org has > sections 3LUA and 9LUA. I noticed my system also has sections > 3f, 3am, and n . What are the names of these sections? > > As I continue installing software, will I have more new manpage-sections >

Re: Extract tar balls

2021-10-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: A quick look at the manual for cvs looks like it probably should have just been: cvs tag successful-build-$DATE where $DATE is todays date. Here's what I see with that: $ cd /usr/src/ $ cvs tag successful-build-20211030 cvs tag: Tagging . cvs

Re: Extract tar balls

2021-10-30 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On 10/30/21 3:51 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, John Nemeth wrote: If you don't use the default shell, then it is up to you to know how your shell functions. You may be right. Perhaps you can help me with this statement found in https://www.netbsd.org/docs/current/#tagging

Re: Extract tar balls

2021-10-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, John Nemeth wrote: If you don't use the default shell, then it is up to you to know how your shell functions. You may be right. Perhaps you can help me with this statement found in https://www.netbsd.org/docs/current/#tagging --snip-- Tagging a successful build If

manpage section-names

2021-10-30 Thread Todd Gruhn
I noticed that the manpage-reader at man.netbsd.org has sections 3LUA and 9LUA. I noticed my system also has sections 3f, 3am, and n . What are the names of these sections? As I continue installing software, will I have more new manpage-sections installed? Thanks in advance

Re: wsconst changing forground/background colors

2021-10-30 Thread RVP
Try the patch below to get "dim" colours throughout. Had to modify the kernel because a) there's no rasops_put_cmap() and b) ioctl(WSDISPLAYIO_PUTCMAP) only seems to work for 256-colour displays. Change colours to suit... ---START PATCH--- --- sys/dev/rasops/rasops.c.orig2019-08-15

Re: wsconst changing forground/background colors

2021-10-30 Thread Riza Dindir
Hello, On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 2:05 AM RVP wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, RVP wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Riza Dindir wrote: > > > >> How is it possible to use the "light" colors defined in the > >> "src/sys/dev/wscons/wsdisplayvar.h" file with the wsconsctl? Although > >> in the "console

Re: Extract tar balls

2021-10-30 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On 10/29/21 10:15 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: I'm trying to follow _The NetBSD Guide_, but I am stymied by these instructions, at https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-fetch.html $ for file in *.tgz do tar -xzf $file -C / done Entering that first line and pressing just yields "for: Command