Subject: Re: stand/.../newvers.sh
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/13/1999 17:56:37
>> >From this, I'm tempted to nuke "vers.c" and make a "vers.h" that's
>> included by boot.c (or whatever) and make the printf()s would look like:
>> 
>> 	printf("NetBSD/" MACHINE " " NETBSD_VERS " " BOOT_TYPE_NAME
>> 	    " Bootstrap, Revision " BOOTPROG_VERS "\n");
>> 	printf("(" BOOTPROG_MAKER ", " BOOTPROG_DATE ")\n");
>...
>It'll undoubtedly annoy the "must be K&R C" purists, if there are any
>of those still about, but annoying them is fun anyway.  8-)

well...if you wanted to placate any of them, it could just be changed
to

	printf("NetBSD/%s %s %s Bootstrap, Revision %s\n",
		MACHINE, NETBSD_VERS, BOOT_TYPE_NAME, BOOTPROG_VERS);
	printf("(%s, %s)\n",
		BOOTPROG_MAKER, BOOTPROG_DATE);

not that it really "matters" to me or anything...  :)

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