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> > > And added a final item called "Exit Basic Linux" which is presently
> "halt"
> > > but I think "shutdown -h now" would be the right thing.
> >
> > What does halt do?  (I don't want to check it right now and the --help
> > result is most unhelpful).
>
> That´s the point: halt simply halts the system and shows the message "System
> halted". I´m powering down from this point and it has been no harmful untill
> now. But "shutdown" is certainly the right way of leaving a Linux session.

In BL2 halt (which is non-busybox) seems to do the same as shutdown - it 
umounts things and flushes the cache.  I could try copying it to BL3.

> > I copied shutdown from BL2 and the above tells me something like.
> > 'You can't do that.  Go away'.
> > How can I change this to actually shut down?

I will try halt instead, perhaps copied from BL2, maybe a script something 
like:
umount -a
swapoff -a (swapoff /dev/hda3?)
halt -d 1  (since shutdown won't work)

> For some unknown reason, it´s very difficult to listen to Brazilian radios
> without a "modern" OS and all those Codecs and that "MS-compatible" stuff.
Mplayer has all those codecs and plays realaudio and wmplayer files.
But a lot of sites seem to insist on javascript.

> > Do you read Portugues with links and use the Portuguese menu?  Have you
> > loaded a Portuguese console font?
> > >
>
> I haven´t loaded any Portuguese fonts, but Links2ssl gives me european
> Portuguese, so I can have the Links menus and read the webpages fairly.
> There are very small differences between European and "BR" Portuguese. For
> exemple, a "file" is called "ficheiro" in european Portuguese and "arquivo"
> in Pt-BR.
> A bit strange, but everything goes fair after a first moment...

You could translate the menu to Brazilian Portuguese and provide it to 
links2 authors.
>

> > > And I created a few aliases to mount/read/umount  floppy and CDrom.
> > The user probably won't do any mounting.  Just read news and write email
> > and play solitaire.
> I agree.
> For a question of culture, Brazilians prefer a GUI, however the most of us
> never do any mounting or extended settings.

Lazy Americans also prefer GUIs.

> I liked the game Lincity. I have games in the menu, but I don´t use playing.
I don't even know how to play freecell.

> > > Cheers,
> > > Teixeira

Sindi