Believe it or not some of us are engineers and embedded systems engineers,
this extra data would be useful.
Mark
>
> At 08:22 AM 5/5/98 -0600, Steven Freed wrote:
> > dfilter
> ...[so on and so forth]...
> >This isn't exactly what I would like, but it's certainly "good enough" for
> >now.
> >
> >Does anyone at Livingston care to comment on this?
>
> !!WARNING!! !!WARNING!! !!WARNING!!
>
> You too savy for "our" own good. Hired goons (aka Headhunters) are on the
> way to kidnap you (with golden handcuffs) and put you into the forced labor
> camp (which has a free Coke machine) with the other Livingston engineers ;)
> **Just Kidding (for the legal dept)**
>
> Yes, it is possible to extract commands using the methods that you have
> used. However, be warned, that these hidden commands are generally kept
> hidden for good reasons.
>
> 1) Hidden commands are not heavily tested, if tested at all. The command
> may seem freindly enough, but could bite you pretty bad when you least
> expect it.
> 2) Some hidden commands can really lock up your portmaster in a bad way if
> you don't know how to use them.
> 3) Some commands produce cryptic debugging output that is only meaningful
> to the engineers. Stuff like which goto statment was used and so on ;)
>
> Hidden commands come and go from from release to release and will often
> change their functionality from release to release.
>
> The general idea has been that if you're smart enough to discover a hidden
> command, then generally you're smart enough to keep yourself out of trouble
> (or dig your own way out of trouble).
>
>
> ---
> jstorms@livingston.com
> Diplomacy: The art of saying good doggie
> while seaching for a big rock.
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