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2008-07-21 Thread kokamoto
The advantage of 9vx over drawterm, for me, is that 9vx doesn't require a cpu server. You are not using Plan 9 anymore then, rather you are using something similar to Plan 9. I felt that Plan 9 is abused by 9vx, which I felt at first glance, but at that time I didn't want to say this... I

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2008-07-21 Thread a
// You are not using Plan 9 anymore then, rather you are // using something similar to Plan 9. I don't think it's that simple. I understand the value of running a native Plan 9 installation (self-sufficiency is an almost universal value), but we don't hear the same complaints when we look at

Re: [9fans] 9vx vs drawterm

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Wiess
The advantage of 9vx over drawterm, for me, is that 9vx doesn't require a cpu server. You are not using Plan 9 anymore then, rather you are using something similar to Plan 9. I felt that Plan 9 is abused by 9vx, which I felt at first glance, but at that time I didn't want to say this...

[9fans] Sam

2008-07-21 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
the 9pm version is still the latest Sam for Windows, right? Thanks! winmail.dat

[9fans] serial problems with 9load

2008-07-21 Thread erik quanstrom
a problem we've seen around here is that parallels and vmware fusion will hang after 9load prints entry: 0x$address. our intel 5400 motherboard also does this when no serial is connected. it turns out that all three of these setups have the same problem. consdrain() loops until all the output

Re: [9fans] Unescaped From in mail items

2008-07-21 Thread erik quanstrom
This is acme mail's fault. The easiest fix is to change /acme/mail/src/mesg.c to do two writes: first use write to write the header, and then use write2 to write the body (write2 is in reply.c and knows how to escape From). You'll probably also want to make write2 return whether or not it