Re: [9fans] Plan9 Sources Repository

2014-07-19 Thread pmarin
Plan9 in general doesn't follow the Bazaar model ( the current usual way of doing things ). On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 11:31 AM, dante subscripti...@posteo.eu wrote: I would like first to thank everyone for the kind replies! Each was useful in it's own way. On 18.07.2014 16:36, erik quanstrom

Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

2013-09-07 Thread pmarin
I thought all the discussion of how the development process should be more open ended with the creation of 9front. For me one of the best things about 9front is that I can follow all the changes in the code by reading their mailing list. pmarin On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Bruce Ellis

Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently?

2013-05-03 Thread pmarin
What about mupdf? It has few dependecies [1] http://mupdf.com/doc/ [1] http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;a=tree;f=thirdparty;hb=HEAD pmarin. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:16 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Fri May 3 13:15:41 EDT 2013, knapj...@gmail.com wrote: Is a PS

Re: [9fans] info for manual

2013-01-15 Thread pmarin
There is no translation of the manual in other language, sorry but it's just product of your imagination. People still don't understand that sarcasm and irony don't work in Internet, they only produce noise and confusion. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Francesco Cardi cardifrance...@gmail.com

Re: [9fans] 9atom on Dell Inspiron Mini 9

2013-01-10 Thread pmarin
See the 9front wiki: http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/usbboot Probably it only works for the 9front version of Plan9 On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Alexander Shendi (Web.de) alexander.she...@web.de wrote: Hello 9fans, I'm planning to install Plan 9 on a spare i386 machine, a Dell

Re: [9fans] unicode fonts in troff

2012-11-06 Thread pmarin
Can you describe the process or at least where did you get all the info for doing this thing? On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Pavel Klinkovsky pavel.klinkov...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to use it under plan9 but sadly i don't have the knowhow. Maybe someone smarter will fix it. To allow the

Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs

2012-06-18 Thread pmarin
do you mind quoting it here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASAfeature=youtu.bet=49m45s

Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?

2012-05-25 Thread pmarin
See the example in tr2post(1) On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Aharon Robbins arn...@skeeve.com wrote: Is there a simple recipe to use p9p troff to format the manual pages from the plan 9 dist?  I.e.:        Install Plan 9 Ports        wget plan9.iso from bell labs        mount said iso

Re: [9fans] devdrawserver

2012-04-24 Thread pmarin
http://summerofdevdraw.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/9p-srv-experimental-devdraw-for-p9p.html On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:57 PM, marius a. eriksen mar...@monkey.org wrote: I've found myself in need of running acme on one machine, but devdraw on another. Since p9p devdraw isn't a file server, exporting

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-09 Thread pmarin
In 15 years Tcl has been improved a lot, like any other language. On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:21 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I did 9p clients for testing 15 years ago. It might have been the right thing then; I was even making nfs clients in tcl back then. Would I do it

Re: [9fans] 9p hello world

2011-09-05 Thread pmarin
http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:56 PM, s s leonardne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:03 AM, yy yiyu@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/5 s s leonardne...@gmail.com: It seems like there might be a hello world example for libixp ...

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread pmarin
); and change f-display- black to f-cols[TEXT] Cheers. pmarin. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: I'll be gone this weekend so Monday would be more than fine.  Best regards,  EBo -- On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:46:01 +0200, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: i have it somewhere, if you

Re: [9fans] wiki...

2011-04-22 Thread pmarin
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Guruplug/index.html I spend 2 second to find it, but is true that the wiki have search issues. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 11 Apr 2011, at 2:51 pm, David Leimbach wrote: I posted some on the wiki

Re: [9fans] where to get color troff?

2011-04-12 Thread pmarin
/sys/src/cmd/postscript/mcolor/ On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Fernan Bolando fernanbola...@mailc.net wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Sape Mullender s...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com wrote: do you mean

Re: [9fans] I can't boot Plan 9 after install it with 9atom (the system is rebooted)

2011-04-10 Thread pmarin
Ok. I have installed Plan9 in an empty hard disk and the bootloader works fine. have the bootloader got any problems if the Plan9 partition is above 1024 cylinders? Cheers. pmarin On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:18 AM, pmarin pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: I have a problem after installing 9atom

[9fans] I can't boot Plan 9 after install it with 9atom (the system is rebooted)

2011-04-08 Thread pmarin
I have a problem after installing 9atom in an old HP Optiplex GX110 (i810e/PIII) When I start the machine the screen only show PBS2...Plan 9 from Bell Labs and after a few second the machine is rebooted. Can someone tell me what I have to do now? Some info ( a few Spanglish sorry): fdisk -l

Re: [9fans] GSoC Widget library

2011-04-03 Thread pmarin
While browsing in 9fans today I discovered that some people actually have written cool user interfaces in Plan9: http://marc.info/?l=9fansm=111558827311549w=2 http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/Tyrrhena.gif http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/Tyrrhena2.gif On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:12

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread pmarin
Write some real world tests using bash/GNU tools, rc (with static linked versions of p9p) and tell us what happend. Maybe you will be surprised. [1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/ On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:30 AM, smi...@zenzebra.mv.com wrote: I'm in the process of writing some filters

Re: [9fans] GSoC Widget library

2011-04-01 Thread pmarin
Which one? Acme/Abaco style or TK/limbo or panel library... On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: Plan 9 already has a widget philosophy, it just needs to be applied to a library (supposedly).

Re: [9fans] plan9 ms .if h test

2011-03-30 Thread pmarin
in their inicialization so probably h only have sense when tmac.cs or tmac.mcs are used. I think that if you are only using the ms macros then h is not important because is not defined. Cheers. pmarin. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello 9fans

Re: [9fans] plan9 ms .if h test

2011-03-30 Thread pmarin
Never mind: .if c is only using for built-ins. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:55 PM, pmarin pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: I searched where the register h is defined: % 9 grep -n '.nr h ' tmac.* tmac.cs:103: .nr h 6 tmac.cs:477: .  nr h \\ne \} tmac.mcs:208: .nr h 6 tmac.mcs:840: .nr h \\ne

Re: [9fans] plan9 ms .if h test

2011-03-30 Thread pmarin
to distinguish between troff and nroff. To write a conditional matching troff alone, use ‘.if !h .if t’. http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/htmlroff.html Cheers. pmarin. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:12 PM, pmarin pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: Never mind: .if c is only using for built-ins. On Wed

Re: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
My theory is that GNU tools were so bloated by design that they realized that they couldn't write a decent man page for their tools so they invented the info pages and the --help flag. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Fri Mar 25 07:52:10 EDT 2011,

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
Read carefully the section 9, 10 and 11 of A TROFF Tutorial[1]. I think is exactly what you are looking for. [1] http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/trofftut/trofftut.ps On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello 9fans, since in the previous

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
DONE! Try the attached code. I am not using the ms macros. You will to change the ms macros to get something similar. troff test.ms | tr2post | psfonts test.ps Cheers. pmarin On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello 9fans, since in the previous

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 March 2011 22:52, pmarin pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: DONE! Try the attached code. I am not using the ms macros. You will to change the ms macros to get something similar. troff test.ms | tr2post | psfonts test.ps Cheers. pmarin Yes. This works. Actually, my

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
Also to pay attention to the command .wh in my example: .wh -1i NP \ When you reach the final of the page less 1 inch call the command .NP On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:02 AM, pmarin pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: Becouse The backslash character \ is used to introduce troff commands and special

Re: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

2011-03-22 Thread pmarin
A very gentle introduction about Troff macros is A TROFF Tutorial by Kernighan. (http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html) A great and complete book with macros like you are looking for is Unix Text Processing. You can download it from http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/ On Tue, Mar 22, 2011

[9fans] Fwd: Fix for using Plan9 compose sequences with Spanish keyboards in X

2011-01-04 Thread pmarin
| awk -f spkeys.awk $HOME/.XCompose Cheers. Pmarin spkeys.awk Description: Binary data

Re: [9fans] Fix for using Plan9 compose sequences with Spanish keyboards in X

2011-01-04 Thread pmarin
Sorry I forgot the diaeresis: quotedbl → dead_diaeresis Reattached the awk script. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:26 PM, pmarin pmarin.m...@gmail.com wrote: Spanish keyboards use different keysyms which are generated by the following dead keys: asciitilde →  dead_tilde grave  → dead_grave

Re: [9fans] plan 9 compose sequences under X

2011-01-03 Thread pmarin
.  Quoting the updated keyboard(7): It works also in other x clients like xterm and tcl/tk. Thank you Russ. Cheers. pmarin

Re: [9fans] Non-VESA video card

2010-10-31 Thread pmarin
The some of the raedon X1xxx series still use the PCI slot. Plan9 drivers is another story. http://www.visiontek.com/1000-series-cards/radeon-x1300/radeon-x1300-256mb-pci.html On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 27 Oct 2010, at 6:12 pm, Lyndon

[9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread pmarin
Hi all. I notice that in Plan9 (p9p) the character CR is not represented with '\r'. What I have to use instead? Cheers. pmarin

Re: [9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread pmarin
I wanted to remove this character from some files. I tried to do it with the p9p tr(1) and I noticed that It does not support '\r'.

Re: [9fans] Where can i get teh code of the Paln 9

2009-11-23 Thread pmarin
http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/ http://github.com/ericvh/plan-9/ On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM, vsong songv@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to learn about the Plan 9 OS, and I want to read its source code and compile it.Where can i check out it? thx

Re: [9fans] Practical issue on using rc shell

2009-11-13 Thread pmarin
of that interactivity. Dave Thanks, Maurício Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com fortunately, the unix world is less radical, you can use rlfe http://per.bothner.com/software/ pmarin

Re: [9fans] Practical issue on using rc shell

2009-11-13 Thread pmarin
fortunately, in unix you can run go :). On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Nick LaForge nicklafo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:46 PM, pmarin pacog...@gmail.com wrote: Fortu fortunately, the unix world is less radical, you can use rlfe http://per.bothner.com/software

Re: [9fans] An excerpt from Syllable's description

2009-08-03 Thread pmarin
I wonder if is possible that underground operating systems like Haiku, Aros or Plan9 should share some kind of knowledge database (not only the source code) about drivers implementation and don't try to reinvent the wheel. Haiku seems to do a great job, for example their network drivers are taken