Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with srv and rio

2008-04-05 Thread Caerwyn Jones
% dc [0=1] | echo 0 /srv/desk Ok, so this is really neat. How do I do it in inferno? What's the equivalent of /srv? Inferno has srv(3) which is the file2chan registry. The closest I can get to the above, without writing a new limbo command, is % load file2chan % calc [0=1] |

Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with srv and rio

2008-03-31 Thread Federico G. Benavento
what about: % dc [0=1] | echo 0 /srv/desk 2 graphical calculators for Plan 9. http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/netlib/demos/suzuki/s41.html -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with srv and rio

2008-03-31 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Mar 31, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: what about: % dc [0=1] | echo 0 /srv/desk Does that even do anything? You can't pipe to echo, can you?

Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with srv and rio

2008-03-31 Thread andrey mirtchovski
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Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with srv and rio

2008-03-31 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Federico G. Benavento [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about: % dc [0=1] | echo 0 /srv/desk well I knew somebody would tell me how to do this. Damn. Nice. ron

Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with srv and rio

2008-03-31 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Federico G. Benavento [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 graphical calculators for Plan 9. http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/netlib/demos/suzuki/s41.html neat. But I like the perversity of using a window manager as my control process. For example, for a memory value, I can

Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with srv and rio

2008-03-31 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Pietro Gagliardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 31, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: what about: % dc [0=1] | echo 0 /srv/desk Does that even do anything? You can't pipe to echo, can you? try it first then send email. Try, try, try.

[9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with srv and rio

2008-03-30 Thread ron minnich
I've been wanting a desktop calculator for some time. I'm sitting on the plane, trying to avoid real work, and decided to see if I could do this: 1. put a dc behind /srv/desk 2. start a rio in a window 3. window 1 becomes cat /srv/desk 4. other windows are stupid programs that, on mouse click,