Re: [9fans] Can you pass the Advanced Namespace Test?

the world works. Anyway, no clue who made it to the end of this wall of text, but thanks if you did. You're welcome. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Plan 9/plan9port coding conventions

to the original idea, it's just been almost universally misunderstood. There's a coherent, if rather longwinded, explanation in the first link in that stackexchange page you cited. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] troff book

was completely messed up. Unfortunately that predated Plan 9 and yesterday(1), but fortunately it's easy to check each stage of the pipeline, and I could work out where to look for the change to undo. If you're using troff, pick up a copy of refer from contrib. -- John Stalker School

Re: [9fans] troff book

. That's one reason why I went back to LaTeX after using eqn|troff for a few months. The other reason is that using troff makes collaboration nearly impossible, as no one else is willing to use it. John -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1

Re: [9fans] troff book

is needed to get them to produce fragments which can be inserted into hand rolled diagrams. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?

be downloaded again go in symlinked directories, to keep the rsync time manageable. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] FORTRAN and tools [was: Modern development language for Plan 9

various other models like plant growth and survivorship, economics, etc. EBo -- -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] need feedback: bibTeX users?

, and this is what journals demand, so I cut and paste. It's been about 7 years since I had a plan9 machine as my main machine for work, and I probably won't go back to that, but if I did then a working version of LaTeX+BibTeX would be a requirement. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College

Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to share.

to accomplish the exact same thing. I'm not really asking people to write better howtos. I think the idea is fundamentally broken. What we really need is some less narrative and more expository. I'm not sure what that would look like, or I would write one. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity

Re: [9fans] Has Anyone compiled 9vx on snow leopard ?

I'm using 9vx without problems on Snow Leopard. I never tried compiling. I just copied over the binary when I upgraded from Leopard. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

partition. Then you can boot, at least into single user mode, and change your /etc/fstab to match the new drive numbering. Exactly where in the boot sequence is FreeBSD freezing? -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site?

documented, he makes notes and then describes how he did things and posts it. It would be nice to have something like that for plan9. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

was fully blessed by one of our advisors. As we grow we will continue to do a lot to help the Plan 9 community, not to mention revolutionize storage area networking. That's certainly good news. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

goes in the base system. I can just express an opinion. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

, but it's something to consider. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

understand the resistance to having a find command in plan9. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

I just tested this and it worked fine. du -a / | awk '{print grep something $2}' |/bin/rc ron Try touch 'x;reboot' and then see if it still works fine. I don't think I like your version on a system with users I don't trust completely. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

sneaky. but it won't work. ; touch 'x;reboot' ; du -a . 0 './x;reboot' 0 . - erik It worked under 9vx on my Mac. I didn't test on real hardware. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

this rebooted your 9vx? sounds wrong to me. It did, or rather it tried to. Of course, /bin/reboot doesn't work in 9vx. I tested it before I posted. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

-- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

And if you like find, write and put it in contrib. contrib/pull quanstro/find - erik Thanks -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

. There is nothing radical about suggesting that we try not to repeat their mistakes. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

many things, including most of my own shell scripts. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

version I can type `cat -' or at worst `cat /dev/fd/0' to replicate the behaviour of your version. An idea more along the lines of your others would be that cat reads a list of files on stdin and concatentes their contents to stdout. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

source of worries. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

? That's a question which can only be answered by the person who would be doing the work. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] missing ed's line numbering in sam -d

The underlying problem is that sam is simply not line-oriented. If you're doing things with a file which is naturally thought of a series of lines then ed is usually better than sam -d. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] typed sh (was: what features would you like in a shell?)

want to give it some other type then you need at least a casting mechanism. You probably also want a splitting mechanism, with a regular expression for the field separator. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme

natural to describe some languages in the class. There are sane objections to adding counts, but I don't think this is really one of them. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme

. Then I snarf that and paste three times. Ugly as hell, but it does work. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] a bug in awk?

For what it's worth, bwk awk does not have this problem, so the error must be in code introduced later. Note the 5946903e318 which AWK may mistakenly treat as a floating point constant. Now to figure how to prevent such errors... -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin

Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions

, like when UNIX switched from basic to extended regular expressions and added a -e option to grep. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions

to implement them in subexponential time, but it hasn't been proved to be impossible. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

. No one should wonder why it isn't more widely used or even remembered in less elite circles. Personally, I never wondered. But I don't really care either. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Acme and unicode

. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

) case. Finally, there will be two modes: hosted and standalone. The standalone keyword changes this. Hosted mode can access print to stdout and stderr, read from stdin, new, renew (like realloc), delete, and a string type. I don't understand. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics

Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

might want to wait for the next BIOS upgrade. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282