On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:26:28 -0500 (EST)  maximum entropy wrote:

> >> Wishlist:
> >> 
> >> 	please put some sleep(5) in all warnings/error in sysinst. it is very hard to 
> >>         read the errors/warnings because they are only visible for a moment, then the 
> >>         screen is cleared.
> >
> >This one isn't too easy. sysinst runs a lot of external commands (like
> >tar, newfs & disklabel), and it's these external commands that produce
> >the error messages. sysinst itself doesn't really know there are error
> >messages happening.
> 
> Is this really that hard?
> 
> Simple idea #1:
> 
> if (system("foo") != 0)
> 	sleep(5);
> 
> Simple idea #2:
> 
> endwin();
> system("foo");
> printf("press return to continue");
> getchar();
> initscr();
> 
> Goofy idea #3:
> 
> Manually fork and exec everything, dup2 fd's 1 and 2 onto sockets in
> the child, and paginate the output in your curses app :-)

Hmm, you've thought about this then!  I'll add it to the TODO list for
sysinst.

Simon.