[6774] in Athena Bugs
olc and olcd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 2 20:54:41 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 91 20:54:31 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
olcd attempts to translate the information printed by "machtype -v" (run by olc)
into a different format. The information printed when the "-v" option is used
is intended only for humans to read, and may change. Without -v, machtype
prints output suitable for parsing by a program or shell script. The -v option
should not be used by olc (originally, no processing was done on the output by
the olc daemon so "-v" was the correct option to use).
(As I write this, I am modifying machtype to print more verbose descriptions
when the "-v" option is used. This may confuse olcd if olc isn't changed.)
