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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: boot.help behavior is broken
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>Number:         8105
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       boot.help behavior is broken
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 30 11:20:01 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 18 13:00:40 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan 18 13:02:02 PST 1999
>Originator:     Jordan K. Hubbard
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5(?) and later
>Organization:
FreeBSD Project
>Environment:

	Any version of the boot blocks after Bruce added his boot.help
	printing code.

>Description:

	The boot.help text is mistakenly printed multiple times
	rather than just once or in response to a specific command.
	This causes its text to scroll away other more useful output,
	such as the file listing (`?') the user may have just requested,
	and there's no way to turn it off.


>How-To-Repeat:

	Boot a FreeBSD boot floppy and attempt to get a file listing
	of /sbin/? or something.

>Fix:
	
	Convince Bruce to make the code a one-shot, hoping that a PR
	will succeed where previous suggestions have failed. :)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/8105: boot.help behavior is broken
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:17:33 +0200 (SAT)

 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
 > >Description:
 > 
 > 	The boot.help text is mistakenly printed multiple times
 > 	rather than just once or in response to a specific command.
 > 	This causes its text to scroll away other more useful output,
 > 	such as the file listing (`?') the user may have just requested,
 > 	and there's no way to turn it off.
 [...]
 > >Fix:
 > 	
 > 	Convince Bruce to make the code a one-shot, hoping that a PR
 > 	will succeed where previous suggestions have failed. :)
 
 A very much better fix is to install btxboot, which doesn't print the
 help file at all.
 
 OK, just kidding. :-)
 
 -- 
 Robert Nordier
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: rnordier 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 18 13:00:40 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is not a problem when using the new boot code. 
>Unformatted:
