Subject: What to call the tool formerly known as ``sysinst''?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 12/03/1997 22:10:27
I'm fowarding the following from port-i386; that's not the right forum
to discuss this issue.


>From: "Robert.V.Baron" <rvb@gluck.coda.cs.cmu.edu>
>In-Reply-To: Jonathan Stone's mail message of Tue, 2 Dec 1997 21:51:49 -0800 (PS
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>>From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
>
>> The bottom line here is that the name 'sysinst' is _not_ going to
>> change for the 1.3 release. It's far too late for that. But that
>> aside:
>
>> sysinst is an MI tool used on a couiple of other ports for 1.3, with
>> more in the pipeline for future releases.  Any name chosen has to be
>
>First, I presume that the community of alpha and beta users is small
>compared to the community of ultimate users.  NOW is the time to change.
>I'd suggest a name like "admin", based on the ultimate scope of the
>tool.

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