Re: [MiNT] vcons

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.demon.nl>]

On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Guido Flohr wrote:

> > It's in /etc/gettytab . I just change the version number in that file
> > myself, but I guess it's no problem to replace the version number with
> > `uname -r` (mind the reversed quotes). Then it would be automatically
> > correct.
> 
> Probably not, /etc/gettytab is not a shell script, it's a config file,
> isn't it?

Aah good point.. it is indeed not a script. I can't try if it works though
because I just brought my Falcon away to be Centurbosized. :)

> But it should be possible to change the source to accept the backticks.

Maybe if the source is changed anyway, it might be nicer to make a
textfile in /etc that is shown, like /etc/issue(.net) in RH Linux, where
the desired text is echo'ed into at boottime. I don't know which of the
two is easier though. :)

Maurits.

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