Hello, I have reinstalled Plan9 and since the "original" iso had many problems with my hardware, I went to 9front. I must say that this has solved a lot so thanks! to the ones that did some good job!
Since in 9front, hget(1) is a rc script and not a binary, the usage of hget(1) for the kerTeX packages (all the admin programs are shared between OSes, so I selected a subset of POSIX.2), called under ape/sh, failed. I have solved the problem (by calling rc with "-c" and cleaning the environment with "rfork E;" before calling hget(1)) and this should work for all the variants of Plan9 installations. I have been able to verify, this time, that the m3D package works under Plan9, and that creating the 'showcase' example, generating the PS with kertex/dvips(1), and showing the file with: "page -w showcase.ps" works (and simpler than on Unices). (Trying to pipe dvips output directly to "page -w" doesn't seem to work.) [ For the ones who don't know, kerTeX is a distribution of TeX and al. http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html and there is a get_mk_install.rc file to... get, make (not mk...) and install for Plan9. And yes LaTeX is supported as a package with many more. This is up to date with TeX, METAFONT, LaTeX etc. ] Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
