[syslinux] 'say'-command in pxelinux?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Apr 26 14:15:42 PDT 2002


Josef Siemes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've read in the pxelinux source and found the command 'say'. It
> just echoes what you gave it as parameter. I haven't
> seen this in the documentation. Is this a pxelinux special command,
> or is it also in sys/isolinux? I find it a quite useful feature,
> so is this supported, or will it vanish at some future point?
> 

Hi there,

The "say" command isn't documented because it doesn't really work the
way people may expect.  I introduced it mostly as a debugging feature;
it's available in pxelinux and isolinux.

It may end up becoming a permanent feature when I rewrite the command
parser, which should happen soon.

	-hpa





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