Re: SEUL: Configuring X

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Matthew Hirsch wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I think I have a suggestion on how to deal with X REALLY sweetly.
> 
> m4 


Yes! I think this is a RIGHT way to do it and as a matter of fact,
it amazes me that nobody has done this before. Shoot, just enter
your card type, monitor type, and amount of RAM on the card and the
rest should be fairly simple.

Brilliant move.

Also, I have moved your latest configurator to 

ftp://ftp.shorelink.com/pub/seul/dev

> 
> Just blow the Xconfig file up.
> no, not with explosives but with the scripting system that got its
> 	 name from the explosive
> M4 is a standard package shipping with linux.
> 
> I came to this conclusion after dealing with sendmail.
> It is easy to make many different type of sendmail configurations
> with a 30 line m4 script (and a few mods to the standard files)
> 
> What does this mean?
> 	instead of people giving you about 10 diffenet files 
> which you can cut and paste them together to the an Xconfig
> file, you modify a 20 line Xconfig.cf file and run a script that
> will generate an Xconfig. 
> 
> Making the 20 line Xconfig file can easily be check boxes or radio buttons
> on a form.
> 	
> -- 
> Matthew Hirsch
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>  
> 
> 

George Bonser 
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