Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?

2008-07-11 Thread Kernel Panic
ron minnich wrote: futex? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex so do we need a futtocks device? i think this can be implemented without any additional devices... wtf?! ron cinap

[9fans] CFP reminder - IWP9 2008 (Volos, Greece, 30-31 Oct)

2008-07-11 Thread Richard Miller
This a reminder that papers are invited for the 3rd International Workshop on Plan 9 (details below). Submission deadline is the end of August, which is approaching quickly... If you're thinking you might offer a paper, or if you have an idea for a subject you'd like to see (or present) in a

[9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-11 Thread matt
I shuold just mail quanstro I guess but maybe someone made a tool /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/vblade The vblades served by this particular vblade require some magic in the first few bytes. Vblade on other platforms will quite happily serve a bunch of zeros Anybody got a script for making

Re: [9fans] notes on the kernel published

2008-07-11 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
1) Did you update them for the 4th edition kernel, or are they still 3rd edition? 2) Does it include a source code listing? 3) Is it digital or hard print? 4) Is it available in America for USD? Otherwise, cool! On Jul 11, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: They are edited by

Re: [9fans] notes on the kernel published

2008-07-11 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Answers, in the same order: 3rd edition. No. The source must be retrieved from the old url with the tar of the source as it was when the book was written. hard print; for digital, retrieve the pdf from the web. I think so, but I'm not 100% sure. hth On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Pietro

[9fans] file heuristics on troff input

2008-07-11 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Just a bit of humor: COMPUTER ME % cd troff % file * advp9prog:directory yes (old attempt at plan 9 programmer's guide) algoawk:directory

Re: [9fans] vx32 @ FreeBSD: 9vx/a/chan.c:1220: error: conflicting types for 'memrchr'

2008-07-11 Thread Nikolai Saoukh
FreeBSD added memrchr to its libc a couple of weeks ago. The system one uses size_t for the len argument; the 9vx one long. Changing that to unsigned long probably would make the compiler happy but would most likely choke the linker up. I chickened out and just commented out the definition in

Re: [9fans] char encoding problem

2008-07-11 Thread andrey mirtchovski
fetched the latest p9p (20080711); same behaviour. Any idea about what's going on please? Cheers, Mathieu.

Re: [9fans] file heuristics on troff input

2008-07-11 Thread hiro
So that's only one file that is absolutely correct. It turns out that the problem is file isn't reading the .FP font as a troff -ms macro line. In the books, they don't read enough lines to see that there are more .PPs than there are #includes. Ah well. And if you thought that

Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?

2008-07-11 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Kernel Panic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ron minnich wrote: futex? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex so do we need a futtocks device? i think this can be implemented without any additional devices... wtf? what the futex? I was mainly joking. I was

Re: [9fans] a question of file and the history of magic

2008-07-11 Thread Dan Cross
I know! We need dynamically loadable shared object files and a new language to describe all the things that file can do, and then a compiler for that language that generates shared objects that are dynamically loaded at runtime Oh, wait. But seriously (yes, Virginia, for the humor impaired,

Re: [9fans] file heuristics on troff input

2008-07-11 Thread C H Forsyth
bentley.ms: troff -ms input yes (Bentley paper) doctype might produce better guesses at troff macro packages and preprocessors

Re: [9fans] file heuristics on troff input

2008-07-11 Thread Iruata Souza
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Pietro Gagliardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a bit of humor: COMPUTER ME % cd troff % file * advp9prog: directory yes (old attempt at plan 9 programmer's guide) algoawk:

Re: [9fans] char encoding problem

2008-07-11 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
advised me on #plan9, I tried '9p read mail/mbox/n/raw' in an acme win. That outputed the whole message, however the accented chars were replaced by runes like that one: � I also fetched the latest p9p (20080711); same behaviour. Any idea about what's going on please? Cheers, Mathieu

Re: [9fans] char encoding problem

2008-07-11 Thread erik quanstrom
Yes, 9p read mail/mbox/40/raw | tcs -f 8859-15 seems to be working fine, thanks. Then any idea why acme Mail has a problem with this message? likely the mime character set string is different from what tcs expects. - erik

[9fans] vx32 compilation under Linux

2008-07-11 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
System: Linux tigaon 2.6.25-4.slh.3-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 23 21:58:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux $ cd src; make produces the error: (seems to be missing gcclib.a?): .. ld -o vxa/zlib/ezlib -Llibvxc -L -g -L. libvxc/vx32/crt0.o vxa/zlib/ezlib.vo vxa/zlib/compress.vo