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- From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
- Subject: Re: Two suggestions .. comments welcome, please!
- Message-ID: <=wznnn.aclark@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 18:09:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.014759.258@sobeco.com> alawrenc@sobeco.com writes:
- [ text deleted ]
- >What we need is a very simple image editor that will make the appropriate
- >changes. Amazingly enough, when I decide to try to install Linux about
- >2 weeks ago, one of the first things I found in the installation files
- >was a program called pboot which does exactly that. Now the documentation
- >is not very good (there isn't any) and the warning about entering hex
- >codes in the install notes is a bit confusing, but the program works as
- >advertised very well. You might consider writing some documentation for
- >it ( about 500 would do it, anything more is overkill), or perhaps modifing
- >modifying the source code so that the user replied to questions like
- >"Which disk (a or b)" and "Which partition (1-10)" etc.
- >Andrew Lawrence, Informaticien Conseil | alawrenc@sobeco.com
- >3605 St-Urbain, #1605 | uunet!sobeco!alawrenc
-
- As the author of 'pboot', I have taken your comments to heart, and have
- modified it with the intent of correcting the deficiences you note. I
- have even added a documentation file, although the original intent was
- (and still is) for the program binary to be self explanatory. I didn't
- use the interactive mode you suggested, but provided a table of "codes"
- for the currently available partitions. (Somebody should probably
- check the accuracy of this table.)
-
- I have uploaded the source, document, and executable (MSDOS) to
- tsx-11.mit.edu incoming, so the improved version should be available soon.
-
- Note: The program is based on Linus' "edit" program in his early
- release notes; I just added a 'newbie' user interface. And
- now more user help.
- --
- Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.
-