[9fans] Nerenburg still around?

2019-03-03 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Does a certain Mr. Lyndon Nerenburg still hang around on this list?

[9fans] any git client?

2019-02-03 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Is there any Git client available under Plan 9? If not, is there a port of "libgit2" available?

Re: [9fans] Rc port.

2019-01-24 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
customized by defining a fn complete{} function. On Jan 24, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Federico Benavento wrote: I just wanted the shell, not the whole thing, it’s a port, because I started from the copy in /sys/src/cmd/, I didn’t want to use es either. On Jan 24, 2019, at 12:01 AM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:

Re: [9fans] plan9ports : open for discussion here?

2019-01-23 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2019-01-23 10:29 PM, David du Colombier wrote: is plan9ports also open for discussion on this list? Yes, but there is also a plan9port mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/plan9port-dev something wrong with the functioning; allowed me to subscribe, but doesn't allow me to

Re: [9fans] Rc port.

2019-01-23 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2019-01-24 03:09 AM, Federico Benavento wrote: Hola, I just uploaded a standalone unix (only tested on macOS/Linux) port with edit, history and completion support to GitHub. I have been using it as my primary shell for months on macOS and it’s seems to be working pretty well. not

Re: [9fans] plan9ports : open for discussion here?

2019-01-23 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2019-01-23 10:29 PM, David du Colombier wrote: is plan9ports also open for discussion on this list? Yes, but there is also a plan9port mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/plan9port-dev thanks for this, much appreciate the tip.

[9fans] plan9ports : open for discussion here?

2019-01-23 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
is plan9ports also open for discussion on this list?

[9fans] MH for Plan 9 : via NMH cleanup!

2019-01-13 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Hello, There's somebody bringing in a port of RAND-MH to Plan 9 by first cleaning up NMH. That person is on this mailing list but I've lost my older mails so can't contact him directly. There's something I wish to discuss with him. Would he please contact me off-list? Thanks, ~Mayuresh

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 64-bit?

2018-12-29 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Would there be any way to get access to the sources for Nix Mark IV? On 2018-12-29 06:42 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: Not that I know of. People moved on to other projects afaik. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 14:09 Mayuresh Kathe Yes, that's the one, thanks for that pointer Gorka, many thanks indeed

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 64-bit?

2018-12-29 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Yes, that's the one, thanks for that pointer Gorka, many thanks indeed. Anyone still working on "Nix Mark IV"? On 2018-12-29 06:26 PM, Gorka Guardiola wrote: Is it nix you are asking about?http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html [1] On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 13:44 Mayuresh Kathe I can't remembe

[9fans] Plan 9 64-bit?

2018-12-29 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
I can't remember the name of the person, but he used to work for a European research lab and had made a 64-bit version of an operating system derived from Plan 9. That operating system had some interesting features, one of which was the ability to isolate a process on a single core of a CPU.

Re: [9fans] upas : without acme : possible?

2018-11-29 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2018-11-30 10:10 AM, s...@9front.org wrote: It's not clear why you think the interface provided by upasfs(4) is captive, or why you insist acme needs to be involved at all. I'm writing this message with nedmail/marshal, connected to Plan 9 in a plain SSH terminal session -> OpenBSD ->

Re: [9fans] upas : without acme : possible?

2018-11-29 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2018-11-30 09:02 AM, s...@9front.org wrote: is that "mail" you mention similar to "mailx" under unix-like systems? the problem is one of not wanting a captive user-interface to the mailing sub-system. On Plan 9, 'mail' is a shell script that invokes either nedmail(1) or marshal(1),

[9fans] acme under plan9port : made to work?

2018-11-29 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
i apologise up-front for asking this on 9fans, but, how is acme and plumber and all it's utilities (including upas) made to work under non-plan9 systems via plan9port; on say something like linux or even mac os x? do they have some kind of user-level library which emulates 9p? ~mayuresh

Re: [9fans] upas : without acme : possible?

2018-11-29 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2018-11-29 08:04 PM, Dan Cross wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:45 AM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: hello, is it possible to use "upas" without relying on acme? it might be uncomfortable (relatively speaking), but is it possible? Yes. This is quite reasonable. To a first order app

[9fans] upas : without acme : possible?

2018-11-29 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
hello, is it possible to use "upas" without relying on acme? it might be uncomfortable (relatively speaking), but is it possible? ~mayuresh

[9fans] what heavy negativity!

2018-10-04 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
man, i experienced such heavy negativity towards my efforts to build a linux kernel based plan9port vehicle that i am sure considering abandoning the effort. the idea was to have a 64-bit linux kernel with the advantages of plan9port (small and elegantly designed+developed tools). no, really,

Re: [9fans] plan9port : complete system : kernel : freebsd || linux ?

2018-10-03 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 11:49:19PM -0400, s...@9front.org wrote: > what is the point of this exercise? to provide an easy to install plan9port based system.

Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager?

2018-10-02 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
; > > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 8:15 PM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >> > >> did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be > >> opened in acme or a similar tool? > >> > >> btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search for, > >> hence couldn't find any. > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> ~mayuresh > >> > >> >

[9fans] plan 9 : any pager?

2018-10-02 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be opened in acme or a similar tool? btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search for, hence couldn't find any. thanks, ~mayuresh

[9fans] renaming rio to rioc!

2018-10-02 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
since it's not the original rio in plan9port, how about renaming it to rioc (rio clone)? ~mayuresh

Re: [9fans] plan9port : complete system : kernel : freebsd || linux ?

2018-10-02 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 02:43:51PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: > How soon would you start needing some form of support back-up? > > It's a little random around these places, which is why promises are > hard to keep. no worries, i am thinking of sticking with linux, it's the most well supported

Re: [9fans] plan9port : complete system : kernel : freebsd || linux ?

2018-10-02 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 02:01:12PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: > > also, if there's enough interest, would there be someone out here > > capable enough to support netbsd-amd64? > > [snip] > But I can help and I may just need a shove to get on with things. by shove, do you mean a reminder? if yes,

Re: [9fans] [ot] the unix philosophy : how useful under plan9?

2018-10-01 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
hi, those were a fun read. thanks for sharing those links. On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 09:17:29PM +0300, Sergey Zhilkin wrote: > Hi ! > > First read - http://9p.io/sys/doc/9.html > Then - http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ > To be sure. > > пн, 1 окт. 2018 г. в 17:38, Mayur

[9fans] [ot] the unix philosophy : how useful under plan9?

2018-10-01 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
hi, how useful is good knowledge of the unix philosophy under plan9? on a common sensical level, it seems, with plan9 being the next step in the evolution of unix, knowledge of the unix philosophy might be valuable since it might get carried forward, but if it's otherwise, may i know of any other

[9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?

2014-11-18 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
i have been trying to get plan9 running on my latest and greatest hp-aio. failed, even while trying out 9front. would there be some way to determine an ideal configuration for a machine to used solely for plan9 experimentation? also, based on what ever i have read, plan9 seems most at home with a

[9fans] using plan9 as the only system!

2014-11-18 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
is there anyone using plan9 as their only system for development activities? while i do have a 'gui' based networked system (a google chromebook), it would be nice to immerse myself into the plan9 culture by using the 'os' for everything i need for software tinkering and development. thanks.

Re: [9fans] using plan9 as the only system!

2014-11-18 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
just be running said OS. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: is there anyone using plan9 as their only system for development activities? while i do have a 'gui' based networked system (a google chromebook), it would be nice to immerse myself into the plan9