[9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, could anybody tell me what's the meaning of '--' in grep -n $flags -- $1 *.[Cbchm] /dev/null ? This I found in Russ Cox's g script. Thanks Ruda

Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
see arg(2) for all the details. -- indicates the end of any options, it ensures that any following arguments which happen to begin with a minus are not interpreted as options. consider the classic question: how do I remove a file called -z -Steve

Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread Robert Ransom
On Sat, 15 May 2010 15:16:35 +0200 Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: could anybody tell me what's the meaning of '--' in grep -n $flags -- $1 *.[Cbchm] /dev/null '--' tells the Plan 9 program argument parser to stop looking for options. See arg(2). GNU getopt has the same

Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread Rudolf Sykora
'--' tells the Plan 9 program argument parser to stop looking for options.  See arg(2). so is it a program dependent feature in the sence that I must know which program uses arg(2) and which does not? (E.g that grep uses it but some other command (is there any?) does not?) Must I read the

Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
I don't beleive greps manual page says it writes its output to file descriptor 1 and reaqds from file descriptor zero but it does, as do all conventional (sic) plan9 programs. Similarly they all use arg(2) to parse their args so they will all support --; however if you are unsure you could look at

Re: [9fans] iwp9.org (Re: BibTex collections of all 4 proceedings)

2010-05-15 Thread Kim Shrier
On May 14, 2010, at 9:58 PM, EBo wrote: I lived in NM for 8 years, I loved it, still do, but ABQ fails the transport hub criterion. I had lots of complaints about that when we had conferences in santa fe. Actually, Santa Fe is a pain to have as a destination for an international

[9fans] package system for Plan 9: alpha!

2010-05-15 Thread ron minnich
Here is a refinement of fgb's fine work on a contrib system. I have taken his ideas a bit further, based on my use of his tools in an unreliable environment. I was getting quite frustrated as I had multiple failures in the midst of an install, and seeing the message 'xyz already installed', when

Re: [9fans] iwp9.org (Re: BibTex collections of all 4 proceedings)

2010-05-15 Thread EBo
If I thought people would actually come, I would see if I could organize something in Ouray Colorado. Do you live in that neck of the woods? It is about 300 miles north of Albuquerque in the San Juan Mountains. You get there by first flying to Denver, Phoenix, or Albuquerque, then

Re: [9fans] iwp9.org (Re: BibTex collections of all 4 proceedings)

2010-05-15 Thread Kim Shrier
On May 15, 2010, at 10:12 AM, EBo wrote: If I thought people would actually come, I would see if I could organize something in Ouray Colorado. Do you live in that neck of the woods? Yes. There aren't many tech people around here and I think it would be great to get a group of Plan 9

Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Miller
consider the classic question: how do I remove a file called -z rm ./-z

Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat May 15 09:54:25 EDT 2010, rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: '--' tells the Plan 9 program argument parser to stop looking for options.  See arg(2). so is it a program dependent feature in the sence that I must know which program uses arg(2) and which does not? (E.g that grep uses it

Re: [9fans] iwp9.org (Re: BibTex collections of all 4 proceedings)

2010-05-15 Thread ron minnich
the one big push for new mexico is spaceport america ... maybe we'd get to see a test launch :-) but that's a serious hike from ABQ :-) ron

[9fans] laggy drawterm on local network?

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
I'm on a 802.11g here on my lan in my house, where my cpu/auth server sits - and drawterm is noticeably slow/laggy. For instance, mousing up/down the rio menus, and drawing/moving new rio windows, scrolling through large amounts of text... all produce regular finegrained intermittent delays

Re: [9fans] laggy drawterm on local network?

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
On Saturday 15 May 2010 2:31:57 Corey wrote: I'm on a 802.11g here on my lan in my house, where my cpu/auth server sits - and drawterm is noticeably slow/laggy. snip Oh yeah - I'm using tcp and not il.

[9fans] custom-built plan9 iso?

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
Quite a while back, I recall someone was inquiring whether there was any documentation/notes available with regards to the process of creating one's own customized plan 9 iso - or related documentation detailing how the official iso/distro is built. If I remember correctly, there were a couple

Re: [9fans] iwp9.org (Re: BibTex collections of all 4 proceedings)

2010-05-15 Thread EBo
the one big push for new mexico is spaceport america ... maybe we'd get to see a test launch :-) but that's a serious hike from ABQ :-) True, then we can maybe move the venue to Los Cruses, Truth or Consequences, or maybe even Hatch (and right about time for the chili festival) ;-) I know

Re: [9fans] custom-built plan9 iso?

2010-05-15 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
As far as I am concerned: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/05/263 and here's maht's blog entry about it: http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2007/11/roll-your-own-plan9-iso.html hth, Mathieu ---BeginMessage--- Quite a while back, I recall someone was inquiring whether there was any documentation/notes

Re: [9fans] if only it had a tad more memory ...

2010-05-15 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:01 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: It supposedly has 256K (which seems a lot for this type of app). I noticed that they provide the Gerber file, schematic and assembly diagrams, and probably everything needed to seriously hack the thing if you

Re: [9fans] custom-built plan9 iso?

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
On Saturday 15 May 2010 2:57:12 Mathieu Lonjaret wrote: As far as I am concerned: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/05/263 and here's maht's blog entry about it: http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2007/11/roll-your-own-plan9-iso.html Excellent - thanks! (I believe there was one other source of

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat May 15 19:18:57 EDT 2010, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: So, how to resolve this mess and finally install the nupas package? It'd also be nice if somehow files in /mail/lib and other places where installed without hassle (though I'd like to keep some custom configs there). first

Re: [9fans] laggy drawterm on local network?

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat May 15 17:33:49 EDT 2010, co...@bitworthy.net wrote: On Saturday 15 May 2010 2:31:57 Corey wrote: I'm on a 802.11g here on my lan in my house, where my cpu/auth server sits - and drawterm is noticeably slow/laggy. snip Oh yeah - I'm using tcp and not il. clearly! /dev/draw is

Re: [9fans] boot errors using most recent plan9.iso

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
... but I'm wondering: why does 9load seem to sometimes suffer from apparent regressions in the official iso? i think the bios calls that the official distribution supports have been the source of a lot of trouble. i've been looking into why that might be, but don't have any answers yet. -

[9fans] programs not using ARGBEGIN

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
here's a different approach. #!/bin/rc cd /$objtype/bin for(i in `{find}) # if(! ~ $i */ape/*) # obviously if(test -f $i) if(! ~ `{file $i | sed 's/ /_/g'} *:_rc_executable_file) if(! grep -s

Re: [9fans] fscons users -r/-w file vs. editing /adm/users manually

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat May 15 19:56:50 EDT 2010, co...@bitworthy.net wrote: If one wants to remove an existing user from the fossil file server, is it perfectly ok to simply edit /adm/users, as the hostowner user, directly? Or is it considered better practice to issue users -r/-w via fossilcons? Or is

Re: [9fans] laggy drawterm on local network?

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
On Saturday 15 May 2010 4:49:32 erik quanstrom wrote: On Sat May 15 17:33:49 EDT 2010, co...@bitworthy.net wrote: On Saturday 15 May 2010 2:31:57 Corey wrote: I'm on a 802.11g here on my lan in my house, where my cpu/auth server sits - and drawterm is noticeably slow/laggy. snip

Re: [9fans] fscons users -r/-w file vs. editing /adm/users manually

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
On Saturday 15 May 2010 5:55:33 erik quanstrom wrote: On Sat May 15 19:56:50 EDT 2010, co...@bitworthy.net wrote: If one wants to remove an existing user from the fossil file server, is it perfectly ok to simply edit /adm/users, as the hostowner user, directly? Or is it considered better

Re: [9fans] boot errors using most recent plan9.iso

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
On Saturday 15 May 2010 5:25:38 erik quanstrom wrote: ... but I'm wondering: why does 9load seem to sometimes suffer from apparent regressions in the official iso? i think the bios calls that the official distribution supports have been the source of a lot of trouble. i've been looking

Re: [9fans] laggy drawterm on local network?

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
Ah... heheh - cleary: because I'm using drawterm and drawterm doesn't do IL? (sorry if that's a lame question) currently, that's up to the host os. and none of the host oses do. in theory one could send raw packets from dt directly. - erik

Re: [9fans] laggy drawterm on local network?

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
On Saturday 15 May 2010 6:26:05 erik quanstrom wrote: Ah... heheh - cleary: because I'm using drawterm and drawterm doesn't do IL? (sorry if that's a lame question) currently, that's up to the host os. and none of the host oses do. Of course, that makes sense - thanks!

Re: [9fans] fscons users -r/-w file vs. editing /adm/users manually

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
So, assuming a non-venti server: when removing users from the fossil filesystem, there's no effective difference whether I do so by manually editing /adm/users versus fscons: users -r/-w [file] ? I'm just slowly trying to accumulate best practices for my documentation efforts. personally,

Re: [9fans] fscons users -r/-w file vs. editing /adm/users manually

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
On Saturday 15 May 2010 6:28:00 erik quanstrom wrote: So, assuming a non-venti server: when removing users from the fossil filesystem, there's no effective difference whether I do so by manually editing /adm/users versus fscons: users -r/-w [file] ? I'm just slowly trying to accumulate

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-15 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:45 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: sometimes replica gets in its own way.  usually when it gets confused, i remove /dist/replica/$x and /dist/replica/client/$x* and often remove any potentially conflicting files.  i suppose it would be better to get

Re: [9fans] package system for Plan 9: alpha!

2010-05-15 Thread Federico G. Benavento
hmm... this looks good, you are still using the .iso's from the existing packages. using hget makes it faster of course, you could hget from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib but that would mean the user/package thing... centralization sometimes makes things easier. kudos On Sat, May

[9fans] standalone terminal w/ kfs no fossil

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
I'm thinking about going through another installation, and I'm wondering whether there's usefulness in undertaking a standalone terminal install using only kfs rather than fossil? And if so, how is this currently done? As far as I can tell, I'd want to use Erik's 9atom iso - which seems to

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
This type of situation is why I like the concept of packages that never overwrite files in the root file system. To back out you just get rid of the package file, reboot -- fixed. I feel we need improvement on this score. the ramfs trick will not work if you have a standard plan 9 network

Re: [9fans] standalone terminal w/ kfs no fossil

2010-05-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
I use kfs on a standalone Plan 9 box. The computer has a 100 MHz CPU with some 48 MB RAM. fossil hogs all processing power. kfs on the other hand is wonderfully stable and low maintenance. Plus, the code is beautiful. The install procedure from CD involved manually going through the install

Re: [9fans] standalone terminal w/ kfs no fossil

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
I'm thinking about going through another installation, and I'm wondering whether there's usefulness in undertaking a standalone terminal install using only kfs rather than fossil? And if so, how is this currently done? there's currently no kfs/cwfs install option. it's only my list of things

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
By the way, Ron, in order to sort this mess out, with the help of Federico, I essentially carried out the operations in the install script of your new package system. I notice you don't keep a list of installed file paths in /installed/$i -- is that something you've already tried, for maintaining

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-15 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Akshat Kumar aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: I notice you don't keep a list of installed file paths in /installed/$i I do, but the intent is that you bind -a package /, and the 'installed' in there has the files. I have this allergy to dropping stuff into /

[9fans] nupas improper error output

2010-05-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
The following tells the story: term% /n/sources/plan9/386/bin/upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com /n/sources/plan9/386/bin/upas/fs: opening /imaps/imap.gmail.com: imap.gmail.com/imaps:server certificate XXX not term% upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com upas/fs: opening /imaps/imap.gmail.com:

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
I do, but the intent is that you bind -a package /, and the 'installed' in there has the files. that won't work unless the differences are at the same level as the bind, in this case /. - erik

Re: [9fans] custom-built plan9 iso?

2010-05-15 Thread Iruata Souza
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Corey co...@bitworthy.net wrote: On Saturday 15 May 2010 2:57:12 Mathieu Lonjaret wrote: As far as I am concerned: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/05/263 and here's maht's blog entry about it: http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2007/11/roll-your-own-plan9-iso.html

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
On 5/16/10, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Akshat Kumar aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: I notice you don't keep a list of installed file paths in /installed/$i I do, but the intent is that you bind -a package /, and the 'installed' in there has

Re: [9fans] standalone terminal w/ kfs no fossil

2010-05-15 Thread Corey
On Saturday 15 May 2010 9:23:51 erik quanstrom wrote: there's currently no kfs/cwfs install option. it's only my list of things to do. Good to know, looking forward to when that's ready! remember that kfs != ken's fs Cool thanks: I was indeed under the impression that they were the

Re: [9fans] nupas improper error output

2010-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
term% /n/sources/plan9/386/bin/upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com /n/sources/plan9/386/bin/upas/fs: opening /imaps/imap.gmail.com: imap.gmail.com/imaps:server certificate XXX not term% upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com upas/fs: opening /imaps/imap.gmail.com: imap.gmail.com/imaps:fd out of

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-15 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Akshat Kumar aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: http://9grid.net/rminnich/src/package-tools/install no, it's not there, as I am not yet satisified with the right way to do this. - instead, there is a straight dircp. yes. So, is this a thing you're

Re: [9fans] package system for Plan 9: alpha!

2010-05-15 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com wrote: hmm... this looks good, you are still using the .iso's from the existing packages. not quite. I actually recreate all the .iso's from the proto files in replica/package/proto. The reason is that in some cases,