🚀 go-pugleaf

As a followup to my woes about blowing away the /machines directory in
NetInfo via niload -d bootptab, I have another question. (By the way, I
forget if I mentioned this but just about the only recourse after hosing
NetInfo so bad it can't even find a database using machine/tag is to restore
from a backup)

After getting everything set up again, and bringing NetInfo back up to its
previous state (niunparse came in reeeal handy, although it needs to check
syntax more when dealing with NFS mounts in /mounts), I rebooted (after doing
a diff on a before niunparse and an after niunparse; they were identical).

Loginwindow didn't show up.  (I already mentioned that, didn't I?)

Anyway, I noticed when I was bringing NetInfo back up that the backups had a
/screens/NeXTdimension directory, while the standard NeXT one didn't.  The ND
was there, the process was running, things were working, which baffled me.  I
went singleuser, fired up NetInfo (again, /usr/etc/nmserver&;
/usr/etc/portmap; /usr/etc/nibindd) and deleted /screens/NeXTdimension.

All worked fine.

Before:

/screens/NeXTdimension
	slot 2
	unit 0
	bounds 0 1120 0 832
	active 1
/screens/MegaPixel
	slot 0
	unit 0
	bounds 1120 2240 0 832
	active 0

Now:

/screens/MegaPixel
	slot 0
	unit 0
	bounds 1120 2240 0 832
	active 0

<same as above>

*But no /screens/NeXTdimension*

Heeelp.  Anybody know what gives?  What does your NeXTdimension system give
when you do an niutil -list . /screens?  Nothing showed up in my queries to
NeXTanswers, online network and sysadmin, and FAQ.  And that little thing
that came with the Dimension card isn't much help at all.
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Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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