> > The trouble is, those messages vanish in about 1 millisecond when the > pager fires up and displays the next set of diffs. The messages are > effectively invisible on my system, and I only found them by running > mergemaster under "script". Of course, Bruce, I have no doubt that > you can see them on your Teletype Model 37. ;-)
If you are using syscons terminal, you should be able to see previous output by pressing the "scroll lock" key, then page-up/page-down (and cursors keys). that's pretty usefull on a 80x24 terminal :) > > If mergemaster depends on perl and perl is not installed, it should be > a fatal error which terminates mergemaster immediately. It doesn't > make any sense to proceed if the merged files cannot be installed. In fact, IMHO, it doesn't make sense at all to have mergemaster depending on perl.. Since it's a system tools, it should use only sh/awk scripting.. my 2 cents.. fifi... > > John > -- > John Polstra > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa -- Guezou Philippe Net. Sys. Admin. Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
