09-13-2008
Perfect! Thanks so much, I guess I should read up a bit on awk
Thanks!!
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guess-helper
guess-helper(8) NVRAM WakeUp guess-helper(8)
NAME
guess-helper - Tries to guess the configuration by comparing four dumps of the NVRAM.
SYNOPSIS
guess-helper
DESCRIPTION
guess-helper is a helper program from the package nvram-wakeup. It will guide you through the procedure of creating the files needed for
the program guess and eventually will run guess at the end. The output will be a configuration file which might even work ;-) Don't change
any other BIOS settings you are not told to change until the procedure is finished.
See README.mb for more details.
SEE ALSO
nvram-wakeup(8), guess(8), README.mb
HOMEPAGE
http://sf.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/
AUTHOR
Written by Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at the bug tracking system (see HOMEPAGE) or on the mailing list nvram-wakeup-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Sergei Haller.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Linux Jul 07 2004 guess-helper(8)