Re: Questions for writing manpages

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:13:50PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have some questions for the writing the documentation[1].
> 
> ** How to use "If [ $x=foo ] Then Else fi" statement ? 
> 
> I've successfully used :
>  if [ A=B ] ; then echo "foo" ; else echo "bar" ; fi" 
> 
> But I cannot use variables, with either :
>  if [ $i=B ] ; then echo "foo" ; else echo "bar" ; fi" 
>  if [ X$i=XB ] ; then echo "foo" ; else echo "bar" ; fi" 

Did you try ${i} and $(i)? (just guessing).

> ** How would you define the "rescue" mode ? In what situation 
> can it be useful to the user ?

Only when something breaks.  For example, when GRUB can't load normal.mod
(and its associated modules), it dumps you to rescue mode.

> ** Does the "ofconsole" console supports unicode ?

No.

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Robert Millan

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