[9fans] ctl and search in nupas questiosn

2016-04-21 Thread Fernan Bolando
hi all I used to have a link about this, but it seems 9fans.net/archive is broken. Search did not turn up anything relevant. what does ctl and search do again in nupas? ; 9p ls -l mail/[Gmail]/ d-rwxrwxr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Apr 21 20:06 'All Mail' d-rwxrwxr-x M 0 upas upas 0 Apr 21 20:06 Drafts d-

[9fans] where is the new avr.9gz

2011-09-03 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all There is an old thread in 9fans archive regarding the avr compiler from Charles Forsythe with all the compile issues fixed. That thread did not indicate that the fixed version was released anywhere. I was wondering if anyone can point to it, before I start trying to fix the compile issue my

[9fans] recommended way to update a 9atom installation

2011-09-02 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all What is currently the best way to update a 9atom install. I have always used 9660srv mount /srv/9660 /n/dist /dev/sdD0/data replica/pull -v /dist/replica/cd and now I am getting various compile errors. thanks fernan

Re: [9fans] 9atom & virtualbox 4.0.10 networking issue

2011-07-06 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: > Good news: 9atom installs fine on virtualbox 4.0.10 (the >   latest) and most everything works > Bad news: network access fails > > Since DHCP failed I hardwired an IP address and tried pinging > the gateway. tcpdump on the host shows that ARP re

Re: [9fans] in ed, how to do i do this?

2011-06-17 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Jun 17, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:04 PM, yy wrote: >>> >>> 2011/6/17 Fernan Bolando : >>>> >>>> 1. insert a character in a line? - I us

Re: [9fans] in ed, how to do i do this?

2011-06-17 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:04 PM, yy wrote: > 2011/6/17 Fernan Bolando : >> 1. insert a character in a line? - I usually retype the whole line with .c > > s/^/c/ what if I want to insert it in the middle of the line? > >> 2. indent a line - i usually retype the whole lin

[9fans] in ed, how to do i do this?

2011-06-17 Thread Fernan Bolando
1. insert a character in a line? - I usually retype the whole line with .c 2. indent a line - i usually retype the whole line. fernan

[9fans] [Off-Topic] Troff macros for professinal looking resume, cv and coverletters

2011-05-26 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi Anybody know of a collection of troff macros for resume, cv and cover letters? regards fernan

[9fans] where is the latest drawterm source?

2011-05-20 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all I was wonderring if the repo http://code.swtch.com/drawterm/ is the absolute latest, because it seems to be missing the patch from http://9fans.net/archive/2007/10/377. CreateNewWindow(kDocumentWindowClass, windowAttrs, &winRect, &theWindow); //CreateWindowGroup(0, &winGroup); //SetWindowG

Re: [9fans] looking for Virtual Host providers that permit Plan 9

2011-05-09 Thread Fernan Bolando
not sure if its the same thing, but sdf.org offers vps VPS ($7-$28 month or $60-$224 annual) SDF Virtual Private Server static IP assignment in 192.94.73.0 250MB-1GB daily transfer quota Centos 5.5, Debian 5, NetBSD 5.0.1 and Plan9 2GB OS images are persistent and can be inter

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

2011-04-12 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Sape Mullender wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Peter A. Cejchan > wrote: > > > >> do you mean 'graph', or 'chart' ? > >> ++pac > >> > > > > right now it's mostly charts. > > I use these macros for generating color: > > .de CL > \\X'PS \\$1 \\$2 \\$3 se

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

2011-04-12 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > do you mean 'graph', or 'chart' ? > ++pac > right now it's mostly charts.

[9fans] where to get color troff?

2011-04-11 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all what are our plan9 option for making colored graphs for troff documents? I am guessing this how it's going to be done create graph using pure postscript -> troff -mpictures -> page is there any other option? fernan

Re: [9fans] Installation woes

2011-03-31 Thread Fernan Bolando
For what its worth. My install on a real hardware was also extremely slow, but after i enabled dma it is very much usable. venti and everything I use virtualbox on several machines including a macbook white and and an old hp dc7700 and its also very much usable also. another thing to note is i am

[9fans] anybody figured out a way to use acme as graphical merging tool for hg?

2011-03-15 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all As I believe there a few hg users here. I was wondering if anybody has a way to use acme to resolve merge conflicts by showing the diffs in different panes. fernan

[9fans] slightly on topic: pic preprocessor for drawing electronic circuits

2011-03-15 Thread Fernan Bolando
In the same spirit as Brian Kerninghans chem preprocessor. I wrote a pic preprocessor in awk for drawing circuit diagrams. This is after looking for various options and did not find one for troff. it can downloaded from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/fernan/schem.tgz I have attached a

[9fans] troff pic bug report -> acid debug -> no fix yet

2011-03-07 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all Here is a bug report for troffs pic preprocessor. It crashes when the commands is in a square bracket and you loose track of the labels ---> test file contents pseudo@helios; cat test.p .PS define missing { [ O: box invis wid 2.5 ht 1; circle diam 0.1 with .e at P

[9fans] drawterm dies when my mac book sleeps by 9p design?

2011-03-06 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all apparently mac os x turns off wifi when it decides to go low power. It can a happily recover most connections that do not require a steady flow of data. I have not tested it but I dont think it turns off wifi when torrent or ssh is connected to a host. Drawterm dies with a sysfatal error, w

Re: [9fans] 8l follows a precedence based on the commandline arrangement

2011-03-02 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Greg Comeau wrote: > In article , > Fernan Bolando wrote: >>just curious is it normal for 8l to follow some sort of precendence >>based on the commandline? this being done through ape/pcc >> >>this is unable to build >>8l -o sp

[9fans] 8l follows a precedence based on the commandline arrangement

2011-02-28 Thread Fernan Bolando
just curious is it normal for 8l to follow some sort of precendence based on the commandline? this being done through ape/pcc this is unable to build 8l -o spice -v /386/lib/ape/libf2c.a spice.8 unix.8 /386/lib/ape/libap.a this was able to build 8l -o spice -v spice.8 unix.8 /386/lib/ape/libf2c.a

[9fans] How serious is incomatible type signatures?

2011-02-26 Thread Fernan Bolando
I am seeing incompatible type signature errors when compiling f2c. Removing -T from the compiler option seems to allow me to compile with no problems. The resulting compiled code seems to run just fine. sig_die: incompatible type signatures 951b2e20(unix.8) and bde91c57(../libf2c/libf2c.a8(sig_die)

Re: [9fans] Spice2g6 using f2c/plan9 was: Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED:

2011-02-26 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> Do you have spice mkfiles available somewhere? > > Spice died when my previous venti server blew up.  Re-doing > the port is on my todo list, but not very high at the moment. > I have been trying to get a circuit simulator working on pla

[9fans] Spice2g6 using f2c/plan9 was: Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED:

2011-02-25 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> Agreed, but is there a FORTRAN compiler/cross-compiler for Plan 9? > > f2c (from netlib) is trivial to get running. This gives you Fortran 77. It > has been sufficient for my needs (spice, zork, some grib stuff). > > --lyndon Do you have

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-15 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > This question has been bugging me for some time and I haven't found any > discussions on the matter. It seems that at least the devices support could > go into the original plan9 kernel. What's the reason for having a fork? --This is jus

Re: [9fans] network connection on virtualbox

2011-02-02 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:06 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Feb  2 05:04:07 EST 2011, nyanhtoo...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi, Running plan 9 on virtual box 4.0.2, I've configured network >> adaptaters as below. >> Attached to NAT >> Adapter type: PCnet-FAST 3(Am79C973) >> check cable connected. >>

Re: [9fans] plan9 compatible notebook

2011-01-25 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> this fix may also help those who had trouble with some disk sizes >> in virtualbox. >> > > I am using the regular kernel in virtualbox without a problem. What does 9atom > fix exac

[9fans] offtopic: snarf from ITS

2011-01-12 Thread Fernan Bolando
I finally got ITS running on my simh plan9 port. I discovered that one of the DDT command from ITS is snarf :SNARF if the current job (say, FOO) has an inferior named , this command takes away from FOO and then does ":JOB ". Thus, becomes a direct inferior of t

Re: [9fans] ape/socket again non-blocking command succeeds but still blocks

2011-01-11 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Federico G. Benavento > wrote: >> it's not fcnlt's fault, ape replaces your sockfd with a pipe >> when you do listen(), you could call fcntl again after the >> listen()

Re: [9fans] ape/socket again non-blocking command succeeds but still blocks

2011-01-11 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > it's not fcnlt's fault, ape replaces your sockfd with a pipe > when you do listen(), you could call fcntl again after the > listen() call... > > all this is usually combined with select() which in turns does > more magic behind the sc

Re: [9fans] ape/socket again non-blocking command succeeds but still blocks

2011-01-10 Thread Fernan Bolando
Here is the message: hola > > from a different window: > > lotte% telnet  tcp!localhost!777 > connected to tcp!localhost!777 on /net/tcp/20 > hola > I got your messagelotte% > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Fernan Bolando > wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I

[9fans] ape/socket again non-blocking command succeeds but still blocks

2011-01-10 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all I am testing the non-block socket of ape/plan9 the code below seems to succeed in making a non-block sockets on unix, but not in plan9/ape it still blocks with no error from fcntl. Is this intended? /* A simple server in the internet domain using TCP The port number is passed as an ar

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2011-01-10 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:26 PM, a z wrote: >> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error >> Press a key to reboot... > > I also had this issue with Openbox-ubuntu-core2duo-ich9/ahci-sata, although > it was intermittent, sometimes it would barely work (painfully slowly) clear > into the part where I was

[9fans] Anybody have a relatively recent windows drawterm binary?

2011-01-05 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi Anybody have recent drawterm binary for windows xp? mingw32 is not agreeing with me right now. regards fernan

Re: [9fans] vlong double-spill botch

2011-01-04 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> what does vlong double-spill botch mean in >> r = (a * b) + (((a * u) + (b * t)) << 18);          /* low is only 35b */ >> > > this is a workaround that i put in the compiler; > it's not in the distribution.  the distribution > compiler hap

[9fans] pcc/8c dies compiling simh code

2011-01-03 Thread Fernan Bolando
hi all can anyone else confirm that the attached file effectively kills 8c? it dies on 9vx and virtualbox, will test it on real hardware tomorrow. cpp -D__STDC__=1 -N -I. -D_PLAN9 -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_EXTENSION -D_C99_SNPRINTF_EXTENSION -DVM_PDP10 -IPDP10 -IPDP11 -I/386/include/ape -I/sys/inclu

[9fans] vlong double-spill botch

2011-01-03 Thread Fernan Bolando
what does vlong double-spill botch mean in r = (a * b) + (((a * u) + (b * t)) << 18); /* low is only 35b */ a larger section of the code is shown below t_uint64 a = ABS (s1); t_uint64 b = ABS (s2); t_uint64 t, u, r; if ((a == 0) || (b == 0)) { /* operand = 0

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2011-01-01 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> MBR...PBS1...Bad Format or I/O error >> Press a key to reboot... >> >> reinstalling 9atom over the plan9.iso installation fixed everything, >> it's bootable and with netwrok support. > > that's quite wierd.  can you reproduce this error? I

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2011-01-01 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:58 AM, wrote: >> Weird i tried similar settings a few days ago and it didnt work. Can you >> post the vdi and hdd  settings too? > > I had some success yesterday, but more so with Erik's 9atom > ISO than the one from the labs.  It handled the VirtualBox > disk emulation

Re: [9fans] ape sockets and plan9

2010-12-31 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:02 PM, ron minnich wrote: > As for 9vx forks on bitbucket: we're all good with hierarchical name > spaces, right? I mean, yiyus/9vx and rminnich/9vx are not the same > thing. I'm not usually in a hurry to pull from yiyus, because I've > felt no urgency to do so, If you

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2010-12-30 Thread Fernan Bolando
Weird i tried similar settings a few days ago and it didnt work. Can you post the vdi and hdd settings too? On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Sam Ducksworth wrote: > Here is how I setup my VM. > > Base Memory: 392MB > Video Memory: 32MB > IDE Primary Master (CD/DVD): (latest plan9 iso was mounted

Re: [9fans] ape sockets and plan9

2010-12-28 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:04:01 GMT "Steve Simon"  wrote: >> I think this is an artifact of 9vx (not 100% sure though), > > Indeed. Programs under 9vx can make outgoing connections but > can't accept incoming ones because it doesn't really create

[9fans] ape sockets and plan9

2010-12-24 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all what is involved in using APE sockets. Anybody can point me to a documentation or sample code? running the sample code in http://www.linuxhowtos.org/data/6/server.c gives me the following error. term% ./serv ERROR, no port provided term% ./serv 4000 ERROR on accept: Invalid argument I am

[9fans] simh old computer simulator

2010-12-24 Thread Fernan Bolando
I have ported simh 3.8-1 to plan9. It currently has the following issues 1. Since I am on christmas break, i dont have access to my cpu server. all testing was done on 9vx 2. 9vx seems to do wierd stuff if you keep the cpu load at 100% for too long, so i had to implement a simple idling routine. s

[9fans] cifsd by cinap

2010-12-14 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi I was browsing around contrib this morning and discovered that cinaps cifsd has been updated. I cant find any logs of changes and such so decided to check here. How does one install this into plan9?

Re: [9fans] ansi escape codes and p9p 9term

2010-12-01 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:49 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Dec  1 09:42:55 EST 2010, fernanbola...@mailc.net wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I like being able to cut and paste on the terminal, but occasionally i >> still drop to xterm to make ansi escape from scrambling the screen. In >> a real plan9

[9fans] ansi escape codes and p9p 9term

2010-12-01 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all I like being able to cut and paste on the terminal, but occasionally i still drop to xterm to make ansi escape from scrambling the screen. In a real plan9 i can use vt, for p9p however what do you guys do? regards fernan

Re: [9fans] What USB audio device are you using?

2010-11-02 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Nick LaForge wrote: > I got this: > http://www.amazon.com/Syba-SD-CM-UAUD-Adapter-C-Media-Chipset/dp/B001MSS6CS > > Haven't tried too hard to get 9 to use it, but it's usb and linux has > the code too.  Audio quality is high, that is until you plug in a mic > and

Re: [9fans] python read problem

2010-08-27 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Michaelian Ennis wrote: > I've noticed some behaviors I can't explain with python and plan9.  I > am using contrib/installed bichued/python.  Trying to read from a > serial port I would suspect I would have to use f.read() if I want to > be able to catch a specific

[9fans] sudden vac: venti write errors

2010-07-16 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all Recently my native plan 9 venti started giving me messages like the on below. Initially I was getting 1 or 2 then started increasing. I thought it was because after moving to a macbook, mac os x was venti weird filenames. Now I am not sure. The http:/.../log doesnt show anything. Are there

Re: [9fans] sources flproto example still accurate

2010-05-06 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:00 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I dont know, but what is wrong with my configuration if I can mount >> sources like unauthenticated... >> mac0:~ fernan$ srv sources.cs.bell-labs.com sources >> mac0:~ fernan$ mkdir ./tmp/c >> mac0:~ fernan$ 9 mount `namespace`/sources ./tm

Re: [9fans] sources flproto example still accurate

2010-05-06 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: > is auth negotiation supported in p9p? > >> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Steve Simon wrote: snaptime –a –s 15 >>> >>> I would not reccomend -s 15 for now, there appears to be a bug in fossil >>> where it can d

Re: [9fans] sources flproto example still accurate

2010-05-06 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> snaptime –a –s 15 > > I would not reccomend -s 15 for now, there appears to be a bug in fossil > where it can deadlock itself somtimes - My home server used to lock up > once every few weeks, after disabling snapshots it has been fine. > >

[9fans] sources flproto example still accurate

2010-05-06 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all Is this example from "man fossilcons" still accurate? srv –p fscons.sources srv –p fscons.sources.adduserd srv sources fsys main config /dev/sdC0/fossil.outside fsys main open –c 25600 fsys main users /active/adm/users listen tcp!*!564 msg –m 40 –p 10 snaptime –a –s 15 I am trying t

[9fans] off-topic: Comparing genomes to computer operating systems

2010-05-04 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all Ever since I read about ken thompson comment on genetic biology. I started reading bits and pieces about it in various diygroups. You guys are the only computer science operating systems research type people I know, so I thought you guys might enjoy this. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/

Re: [9fans] drawterm and macbook touchpad

2010-05-02 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: >> for the mac the documentation says ctrl+click is equal to right click >> and option+click is middle click. It works fine using them with acme, >> but I cant seem to make a new window in rio? > > for right click, you want command+click, not

[9fans] drawterm and macbook touchpad

2010-05-02 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all I have recently switch to a macbook. I used to be very comfortable using an ibm touchpad+keyboard to emulate middle clicks and right clicks. for the mac the documentation says ctrl+click is equal to right click and option+click is middle click. It works fine using them with acme, but I can

Re: [9fans] updating 9vx root

2010-04-20 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:29 PM, EBo wrote: > Fernan Bolando said: > >> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:49 PM, EBo wrote: >> > >> > what is the procedure for either updating the entire 9vx root, or setting >> > up >> > and building all the spec

Re: [9fans] updating 9vx root

2010-04-20 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:49 PM, EBo wrote: > > what is the procedure for either updating the entire 9vx root, or setting up > and building all the special customizations to build an up to date system? > > For background, I am running the newest 9vx/vx32 sources and have tried > various combinati

Re: [9fans] Configuring NFS

2010-02-12 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM, John Floren wrote: > Has anyone here successfully set up nfsserver to share Plan 9 files > with Unix machines? The examples given in the man pages are rather... > opaque. All I want to do is share one directory tree (/lib/music, in > particular) with a number of ind

Re: [9fans] 9atom.iso

2009-10-05 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: > I have a *nomp=1 in plan9.ini. > >    Lucho > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:32 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> On Mon Oct  5 14:45:01 EDT 2009, lu...@ionkov.net wrote: >>> I don't see neither /dev/mpirq nor /dev/nompirq. >>> >> >> you're correct

Re: [9fans] replica under 9vx

2009-10-04 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:15 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Steve Simon wrote: >>> I don't see this explaining a >>> mkdir with mode of 0 however. >> >> Does the file/dir actually have a mode of zero on the source machine? > > no, it has mode 755 > > This is for the tex

Re: [9fans] clarification on man 9p

2009-10-03 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Russ Cox wrote: >> "In general, the File interface is appropriate for maintaining >> arbitrary file trees (as in ramfs). The File interface is best avoided >> when the tree structure is easily generated as necessary; this is true >> when the tree is highly structure

[9fans] clarification on man 9p

2009-10-02 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi in man 9p "In general, the File interface is appropriate for maintaining arbitrary file trees (as in ramfs). The File interface is best avoided when the tree structure is easily generated as necessary; this is true when the tree is highly structured (as in cdfs and nntpfs) or is maintained els

Re: [9fans] zero length arrays in gcc

2009-09-25 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all both option did not solve my lost pointer problem. I am still verifying if it is due to something unrelated to zero length arrays option1 unsigned foo[1]; #define startLabel (&foo[1]) option 2 static unsigned startLabel0; static unsigned startLabel[] = &startLabel0 thanks fernan -- h

[9fans] zero length arrays in gcc

2009-09-22 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all nhc98 uses a few of static unsigned startLabel[]={}; which is a zero length array. It appears that it uses this as reference to calculate the correct pointer for a bytecode. pcc does not allow this since zero lenth array is another gcc extension. I tried declaring it as static unsigned

Re: [9fans] porting help please (gcc void pointer handling)

2009-09-10 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:17 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > >> I am trying to port nhc98 the bytecode haskell compiler. >> I am hoping to avoid changing those definition because I think those >> are generated by the >

Re: [9fans] porting help please (gcc void pointer handling)

2009-09-09 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > you might consider using a sed script to change the CT_.* style #defines, > and run the sed script from the mkfile/makefile, so although the > porting is (in your sense) `destructive' it's done by changing the > original source file automat

Re: [9fans] porting help please (gcc void pointer handling)

2009-09-09 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:35 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> gcc happily compiles a definition like >> #define CT_v249       ((void*)startLabel+464) >> > > no it doesn't. > > $ cat > x.c > char    *startlab; > long long offset = (void*)startlab+464; > [...] > $ gcc -Wall x.c > x.c:2: error: initialize

Re: [9fans] porting help please (gcc void pointer handling)

2009-09-09 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Greg Comeau wrote: > In article <1d5d51400909080844q1bee4c3s114ccc5e51ce5...@mail.gmail.com>, > Fernan Bolando wrote: >>...error: initializer is not a constant: F0_Prelude_46primLeave >>--h file --- >>#define VAP_TAG  1 >>#de

[9fans] porting help please

2009-09-08 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all I know it's cheating, but can anybody help me fix an initializer is not constant error from pcc error: initializer is not a constant: F0_Prelude_46primLeave --h file --- #define VAP_TAG 1 #define WORDSHIFT 5 #define WORDSIZE (1<>3) #define ZAP_BIT(1L<<(WORDSIZE-1)) -- c f

Re: [9fans] lisp again.

2009-09-07 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:54 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, LiteStar numnums wrote: >> Well, lisp != common lisp aside, I wouldn't mind a native CL system. I >> haven't looked at the SBCL backend in quite sometime, but, assuming it's not >> terribly insane, that would be a

[9fans] lisp again.

2009-09-07 Thread Fernan Bolando
lisp has been discuss in 9fans several times already Anybody started porting clisp, gcl or any of the main lisp compilers? I have been going at it on-and-off for some time never really progressed, I was hoping someone already started and got bored with it. I am hoping to use that as a starting poi

[9fans] porting bison y files to ape

2009-08-27 Thread Fernan Bolando
Anybody have notes in porting bison based .y? fgb's links browser port seems to simply discard bison generated code. thanks fernan -- http://www.fernski.com

Re: [9fans] unvac troubles...

2009-08-21 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using unvac to try to extract some vac archives I made in the fall > of 2008. I'm running into a pair of problems. > > First, unvac is outputting directories with the write bit off. This > causes it to fail pretty early, as it

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-18 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:13 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Does this include the cd writer bug fixed that we had recently? > > i'm not sure what you're referring to.  it includes all > the fixes that have been made. I was referring to this thread http://9fans.net/archive/2009/08/330 >> Will i br

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-18 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> boot: can't connect to file server: '#S/sdD0' file does not exist >> panic: boot process died: unknown >> panic: boot process died: unknown >> dumpstack disabled >> cpo0: exiting > > fixed.  you should now be able to boot from the cd regard

[9fans] securing venti and fileservers was: (vac errors after updating to latest p9p archive)

2009-08-17 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all We have discussed the common setup used by 9fans. Can somebody post there method of securing venti stores. regards fernan -- http://www.fernski.com

Re: [9fans] vac errors after updating to latest p9p archive

2009-08-17 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Daniel Lyons wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Fernan Bolando wrote: >> >> oops >> seeing that I posted this blindly anybody can now gain access to my files. > > > Is this true? I would have thought access to your Venti w

Re: [9fans] vac errors after updating to latest p9p archive

2009-08-16 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > Hi all > > Anybody seen this error before > create bsize 8192 psize 8180 > vacfsopen 271cb9c9fdc75030ff368bc938ee419e1dbb4bb2 > openscore 8192 psize 8160 dsize 8192 > vtcachebumpblock: no free blocks in vtCacheAbort tr

[9fans] vac errors after updating to latest p9p archive

2009-08-16 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all Anybody seen this error before create bsize 8192 psize 8180 vacfsopen 271cb9c9fdc75030ff368bc938ee419e1dbb4bb2 openscore 8192 psize 8160 dsize 8192 vtcachebumpblock: no free blocks in vtCacheAbort trap I just updated to august 16 version. I am running vac through crontab under openbsd reg

Re: [9fans] 2nd draft of the Cpu/Auth Server howto online

2009-08-13 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Corey wrote: > > http://www.p9dp.org/plan9-cpu-auth-server-howto.html > > This is likely to be the final draft; it has been optimized in various ways > and > I have thoroughly tested it multiple times. > > Sure would be terrific if a few folks of varying degrees of

[9fans] the atom versus glenda who won??

2009-08-13 Thread Fernan Bolando
since it seems customary to send out a shout everytime Eriks new sd stuff works here is mine I am now running plan9 on my atom based motherboard. It is configured as a cpu/auth server with fossil+vent filesystem The band-aid works!!! thanks Erik -- http://www.fernski.com

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-13 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Thu Aug 13 10:16:09 EDT 2009, fernanbola...@mailc.net wrote: >> There is no edev->maxtu in /sys/src/9/pc ether8169.c >> there is edev->maxmtu Mtu same thing??? > > i don't believe you've installed the version of 8169 in > my contrib. >

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-13 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:57 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > a further note, if you rebuild your kernel, it won't work. > installing the following contrib packages is required >        quanstro/fis            (build and parse sata fises) >        quanstro/sd             (new sd stuff) >        quans

[9fans] disk dma on before init /bin/rc

2009-08-13 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all The subject says it all. Is it possible to turn on dma before calling the init scripts? or in fossil+venti installation turn on dma before loading venti fernan -- http://www.fernski.com

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-12 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:40 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> > judging from past email, i'm guessing that your ide device >> > is 27c4, which was missing from 9load.  i put up a corrected cd. >> > if you can ftpfs from your mostly-installed machine and >> > get just 9load.bz2, it's in the same directo

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-12 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:17 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> >> last 2 lines says >> Boot devices: fd0 ether0 >> boot from: >> >> >> I will investigate further. >> > > judging from past email, i'm guessing that your ide device > is 27c4, which was missing from 9load.  i put up a corrected cd. > if you

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:25 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> >> When I download this ISO, it gets to what appears to be the last byte then >> aborts. > > i tried this and it works for me.  in the interest of time, and > not further overloading my dsl line, i downloaded over the > local interface, and

Re: [9fans] SATA inst: some progress

2009-08-10 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:20 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > while installing from erik quanstrom's 9atom.iso CD, everything went just > right up to: > > mountfs [/dev/sdE0/fossil] > preparing menu ... fossil 833: suicide: sys: fp: stack overflow fppc=0x23304 > status=0x82c1 pc=0x23308 > > 'black' message

Re: [9fans] Intel atom motherboard - success at last

2009-08-07 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:49 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Thu Aug  6 19:36:22 EDT 2009, quans...@quanstro.net wrote: >> > I went through all the default during the install and during fmtfossil >> > I got a few >> > >> > matherror something and it crashed. I t wen too fast for me to take >> >

Re: [9fans] Intel atom motherboard - success at last

2009-08-06 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Steve Simon wrote: > I have had loads of problems trying to build a new machine, > Erik has helpd way beyond the call of duty, and finally I > have a working machine. > > The problems where: >        realteck rtl8169 GigE - erik's driver works a treat >        An int

Re: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern

2009-07-23 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:08 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > like most things, it's been done by some9fan somewhere somewhen. > here's a simple transliterating eng-bg:bg-eng dictionary that queries > a remote site: > > http://mirtchovski.com/p9/sadict/sadict > > i don't think it was ever submitted

Re: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern

2009-07-23 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Richard Miller<9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> although it uses http, twitter has got an api that you can use outside >> a browser. it's much the same with several others, including aws. >> there are reasonably clear descriptions of the messages, and you can >> const

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? too many spaces

2009-07-14 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:38 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I usually get in a situation like the one below, when I forget to >> format my file with carriage return in acme. It doesn't happen that >> often, but I was wondering if anybody has some method in there usage >> of acme to avoid it complete

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? too many spaces

2009-07-13 Thread Fernan Bolando
I usually get in a situation like the one below, when I forget to format my file with carriage return in acme. It doesn't happen that often, but I was wondering if anybody has some method in there usage of acme to avoid it completely. --- In acme it will look like -

[9fans] when to use vac -q -d old.vac instead of simply vac -d old.vac

2009-06-28 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi The p9p vac discussion made me re-think the way I use vac. man vac "-qIncrease the performance of the -a or -d options by detecting unchanged files based on a match of the files name and other meta data, rather than examining the contents of the files" Why is -q not a default? Is

Re: [9fans] p9p vac issue

2009-06-26 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> looks like it's related to the error above. you might want to downgrade to >> http://swtch.com/plan9port/plan9port-20090609.tgz > > fortune tells me > > The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, > coupled with judiciously

Re: [9fans] p9p vac issue

2009-06-22 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Mathieu L. wrote: >> if you can't get an old one from swtch.com, I can tar this mid-february >> tree I have - or rather only the necessary parts - and serve it to you >>

Re: [9fans] p9p vac issue

2009-06-22 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Mathieu L. wrote: > if you can't get an old one from swtch.com, I can tar this mid-february > tree I have - or rather only the necessary parts - and serve it to you > if you want. > > Mathieu > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Adrian Tritschler >

[9fans] plan9 install intel atom d945gclf

2009-06-19 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all I recently bought an intel atom motherboard what does it mean if the install stops after pcirouting: here is what the screen looks like PBS1... Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR: 0E00 pcirouting: 8086/27D4 at pin 3 irq 9 pcirouting: 8086/27D6 at pin 4 irq 10 < then stops> Here is the current c

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