Sorry about the long delay getting back to you - I just fought my way
done my mailbox and found your message :-/

According to Greg A. Woods:
>
>> As others have stated, you can nail these devices in the config.  The
>> abc tool I released for testing last week will actually
>> _automatically_ nail any disks that are present for you.
>
>Cool.  Where's that at?
>

You can fetch the automated builder of config files from:

ftp://ftp.whooppee.com/pub/abc.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.nemeton.com.au/pub/netbsd/abc.tar.gz


To make abc work you either need Julian & My curses patch (lib/3969)
or ncurses.  If you build with ncurses you just need to put the -I and
-L flags in to point at the ncurses include & lib files and remove the
call to `clear()' at line 506 of ui.c.  The line deletion only affects
the screen when you do an insert of a new device.  It seems that the
ncurses I tried (ncurses-1.9.9g) has a bug, IMHO, with wrefresh in
that stdscr gets refreshed even when you ask that just a particular
window get refreshed.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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