In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wrote: > > After a longish discussion with Detlev we came up with a new > proposal, which hopefully is acceptable to all. We agreed that a > command name like "clearenv" or "scrubenv" or similar (which doesn't > require any arguments) might be too dangerous for the unexperienced > user why randomly types commands "just to see what happens". For > example, even if you type "erase" it will not do any damage because > arguments are missing - but "erase all" will blow away most of your > flash content without asking. > > So the idea is to call the new command "environment" (or short "env"); > usage would be then: > > => env clear > > to clear the envrionment (except read-only variables); thsi also > allows for pretty useful additional functionality like this: > > => env default > > to reset the environment to the (compiled in) default settings. > > One might even consider something like > > => env clear all > > to blow away the whole env, including the read-only variables. > > > Would that be acceptable to everybody?
There was general agreement that this was a good thing, but I haven't seen any actual code yet. I anybody working on this? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q: Do you know what the death rate around here is? A: One per person. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
