Re: [Sheflug] Question on ISPs

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Matthew John Palmer wrote:

> > > [1]: Of course, you can take the Turnbull approach, go through all the man
> > > pages and configure it all by hand ;)))
> That's not just the Turnbull approach - it's the approach which should be
> taken if you want to have a clue about how to do things for yourself.

Heh, I know, it was just a cheap jibe at Stephen ;))

> If you think it's beneficial, nobody is stopping you from writing a program
> to do it.  This is Linux, after all - you're encouraged to write code.

It would actually be a good first-time project for someone: you can get a
library to abstract .ini files, in which case it's just a matter of a few
fprintfs' to output the correct syntax into a file, so long as you don't
mind blasting any settings which might already be there. Shouldn't take
more than half an hour really.

> The problem, mainly, is that nearly everyone who as the knowledge to do it
> sees little need to do it, since they can get by as it is.  The production
> of esy tools usually comes from source 2, or the very occasional strange
> individual who feels like writing it for the clueless newbies out there.

Hmmm. I would gladly write it, but I'm in exam week at the moment.
Nevertheless, if I'm not going anything on Sunday (I shall certainly be
drinking much on Saturday, last exam on friday ;) I might knock one out.
It'd be interesting to see if you could actaully attach it to Netscape
too. I don't think I'd like something attached to .cgi 'files' though,
would probably break many things.. unfortuante. 

Cheers,

Alex.


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