Has anybody managed to write a DVD+R or +RW using Plan 9?
And if so, how? Neither scuzz nor cdfs seems to be able
to write +RW discs on my machine. I had some luck writing
a +R disc with my modified scuzz, but there were complications.
On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
Fix the text.
Okay, Mr. Grumpy :-)
The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
So which of the 15 style manuals sitting on my shelf should I follow
for the rewrite :-)
My philosophy is that man pages describe code. I
On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
To avoid the confusion that can be introduced
by capitalizing a magic word, where possible I rewrote the
sentence to avoid the problem.
With the nice side effect of making the pages more readable in
general. Maintaining a balance between
My philosophy is that man pages describe code. I don't capitalize
Code??! well, there's a thought for us all.
On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
If you see many instances that sow such confusion, either
I missed them the first time or, more likely, they've been
edited since by someone less focused.
Or perhaps the underlying conflict is that between the grammars of C
and English. C's
But most importantly, they try to ensure
consistency throughout the documentation set.
so does Plan 9; it just doesn't use your rules.
On Dec 6, 2005, at 4:32 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
But most importantly, they try to ensure
consistency throughout the documentation set.
so does Plan 9; it just doesn't use your rules.
I'm curious about this comment. man(6) describes the macros it makes
available, but it says nothing
so does Plan 9; it just doesn't use your rules.
I'm curious about this comment. man(6) describes the macros it makes
available, but it says nothing about how they should be used in the
context of writing the man page itself. There is no mention
whatsoever of style or usage. (USG
the typeset pages.) But the unwritten style guide for BSD man pages
says function names (and almost everything else) are case preserved.
--lyndon
Are you sure? I just looked at Rob's example, qsort(3), on my FreeBSD
system. It mostly follows his usage, but there was
Mergesort() is
Seems to me you could satisfy both your desire for consistency
and that of being a frustrated writer by writing the man page that
details how to write a man page in the accepted Plan 9 style.
--jim
On Tue Dec 6 08:03:30 EST 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 6, 2005, at 4:32 AM, Charles
the typeset pages.) But the unwritten style guide for BSD man pages
says function names (and almost everything else) are case preserved.
--lyndon
Are you sure? I just looked at Rob's example, qsort(3), on my FreeBSD
system. It mostly follows his usage, but there was
Mergesort()
My memory is clearly faulty, but the point remains that if the writing
is inadequate, rewrite.
-rob
On 12/6/05, Charles Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the typeset pages.) But the unwritten style guide for BSD man pages
says function names (and almost everything else) are case preserved.
So my new employer has a coding convention that tabs don't appear in
source, and that indent levels are 4 spaces. Ick. But in the
interest of global harmony, I'm willing to adapt. I know I can
trivially convert the tabs to spaces at any given time, and set
$tabstops to 4 to get the right
On 12/6/05, Paul Lalonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some automatic tab conversion code somewhere in Acme? Where
would be the sane place to put such a thing? (yes, I already know
there is no sane place for such a thing...)
Okay, I'll ask the obvious-- why not an en- and de-tabbing
On 12/6/05, Rob Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's no code, but using -a helps a lot. We have a two-space
indent rule here and I hate it but I've adapted.
-rob
Writing lots of C++ are we? :-)
Just a guess.
how many mouse devices can plan9 support on one PC at
the same time?
looking at limitations other OSs have like
http://link.mywwwserver.com/~jstookey/arcade/rawmouse/
curious...
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Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about.
Just
cache.c:698: * BUG: if the disk is full, should we flush some of it to Venti?
Should we? It's still not clear to me. There are fossil console
commands you could have typed to free up a little space
and run an archive to venti.
To find your old vac scores, see /sys/src/cmd/venti/dumpvacroots.
What is the behavior of using alarm() in one of the threads
in a multi-threaded program? Which will thread will get the
note? Or it is undefined -- alarm() can be used at process
level.
Also, where can I find sample code to handle terminal
abort/interrupt?
-ishwar
of course. or don't call it a cache but something that may
fill up and screw you over. the machine was far too hosed
to connect to fscons and in any case telling a user if you
do too much stuff you will have to call me to fix fossil is
not aacceptable.
I'm not claiming, under any
so it should be made clear that fossil is not appropriate for
large files or file system traffic. if i wish to create a 5G file
and fossil is 10G can i? well it depends on what has happened
since the last snap.
brucee
On 12/7/05, Russ Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
of course. or don't call it
I could distribute Henry Spencer's paper on how to write a manual
page, touched up for Plan 9, if people really feel the need for
guidance.
My poor manual pages are notorious, I'm
sure I ought to read it.
-Steve
On Dec 6, 2005, at 12:11 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
i'm anyway currently stuck in a grim world of
public abstract SocketChannel extends
java.nio.channels.spi.AbstractSelectableChannel
implements ByteChannel, GatheringByteChannel, ScatteringByteChannel
where clearly no names are used
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