Re: 2 minor items to GRUB 0.9x

2003-01-16 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 16 Jan 2003 02:05:59 +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote: XON/XOFF: From Terminal to GRUB (GRUB incomming side) I often encountered the problem on the command line (and menu), that using the mouse (cutpaste) or using some tools like expect, GRUB looses characters, when it shifts the line,

Re: 2 minor items to GRUB 0.9x

2003-01-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Basically, it depends on how crucial it is whether a given feature is integrated or not. Any code change could make software unstable, as you know, so I'll install a new feature, only if you can't live with GRUB without such a feature. Non-critical features are never added. If you believe that

Re: 2 minor items to GRUB 0.9x

2003-01-15 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello, thanks for the answer. It is also important for me to check, how important which feature is. But here some words, why I introduced those points: XON/XOFF: From Terminal to GRUB (GRUB incomming side) I often encountered the problem on the command line (and menu), that using the mouse

2 minor items to GRUB 0.9x

2003-01-07 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello GRUB group ! I have two minor items for GRUB 0.9x to discuss. Both are not features which will violate the feature freeze. 1) We should add the XON/XOFF support for the serial line. This can be done locally in serial.c: When waiting for a key or checking, if a key is pressed (in the