Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia
> i was flipping through tanenbaum's "modern operating systems - 3e" > (2008) and couldn't find any mention of plan9, inferno or 9p. how > modern is that!? that depends on one's definition of "modern". i believe the plan 9 guys and tanenbaum had a difference of opinion. cf. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.research/browse_thread/thread/7f0d9faf290b8ce2/598d4a31d5c1aac7?lnk=gst&q=presotto#598d4a31d5c1aac7 - erik
Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia
> i was flipping through tanenbaum's "modern operating systems - 3e" > (2008) and couldn't find any mention of plan9, inferno or 9p. how > modern is that!? They're in my book.
Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i was flipping through tanenbaum's "modern operating systems - 3e" > (2008) and couldn't find any mention of plan9, inferno or 9p. how > modern is that!? I had an older edition and I don't remember seeing any references in that. Were they ever there? -- Tom Lieber http://AllTom.com/
[9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia
i was flipping through tanenbaum's "modern operating systems - 3e" (2008) and couldn't find any mention of plan9, inferno or 9p. how modern is that!?
Re: [9fans] test command
Hello, On 2008/09/11, at 11:38, Russ Cox wrote: there are certainly better ways to do this, but this works: as does /bin/mtime. I didn't know this command. thanks russ and erik. Kenji Arisawa
Re: [9fans] Acme questions
2008/9/11 sqweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think Pietro was making a suggestion, rather than explaining the > current state of affairs. Oops. Well, I think is a good suggestion. :-)
Re: [9fans] Acme questions
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, sqweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Pietro was making a suggestion, rather than explaining the > current state of affairs. > -sqweek i think your doubts benefit more than mine do.
Re: [9fans] Acme questions
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:23 PM, hugo rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/10 Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I think double-clicking on the box to the left of the column information >> line thingy should do it. > > You mean the small purple box left of the column tag? probably I am > doing something wrong, but when I double click it with any mouse > button nothing happens. I think Pietro was making a suggestion, rather than explaining the current state of affairs. -sqweek
Re: [9fans] Acme questions
2008/9/10 Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:04 AM, hugo rivera wrote: > I think double-clicking on the box to the left of the column information > line thingy should do it. You mean the small purple box left of the column tag? probably I am doing something wrong, but when I double click it with any mouse button nothing happens. The best I can do is to click it then drag, and then leave a very small column, that is still using some space that I could use
