[syslinux] [PATCH] Documentation: introduce the working directory

Paul Bolle pebolle at tiscali.nl
Wed Jan 12 14:28:06 PST 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 14:18 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/12/2011 01:55 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> The subdirectory is called "dos".

OK. (I was editing on autopilot there.)

> > -This will alter the boot sector on the disk and copy a file named
> > -LDLINUX.SYS into its root directory (or a subdirectory, if the -d
> > -option is specified.)
> > +This will alter the boot sector of that device. A file named LDLINUX.SYS
> > +will be copied into its root directory. That root directory will the working
> > +directory of LDLINUX.SYS. (If the -d option is given, that file will be copied
> > +into the specified subdirectory and that subdirectory will be the working
> > +directory of LDLINUX.SYS.)
> 
> We probably should lowercase ldlinux.sys, since it's a lower case name
> on Unix.

Lowercase is fine with me.

Should I resend the patch or is it better to lowercase ldlinux.sys (not
just in the above section but in other places too) in a separate patch?


Paul




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