[9fans] silly Q

hi all, what is the reason why the dir structure of /usr/xxx does not follow that of / (according to namespace(4)), please? e.g., /386/bin, /386/lib, /386/include, /rc/bin, /rc/lib, but, /usr/glenda/bin/386, /usr/glenda/bin/mips, /usr/glenda/bin/rc. thanks, ++pac.

Re: [9fans] SATA inst: some progress

Thank you very much, Erik! ++pac -Original Message- i can reproduce this problem but haven't yet figured out what's going on, yet. i think it's my error due to some junk sneaking onto cd. i'm working on it. - erik winmail.dat

[9fans] SATA inst. finally succeeded!

WOW! With the new cdimage from Eric's ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2, the install friom sdE1 was s smooth! Almost just hitting 'Enter' key all the time ;-) A big THANKYOU, Eric! After first login I got some 'black' messages, however: sdE0: i/o error 5...@4,461,520 fossil:

[9fans] oh, no! (again)

Sadly, I was too optimistic when SATA install succeeded... :-( This is a report of error messages I've got while booting new system on (and from) sdE0: sdiahci: drive 0 in state ready after 0 resets # SATA HD with Plan 9 system on it sdiahci: drive 1 won't come up; in state new after 10

[9fans] SATA inst: some progress

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 is: matherror note: sys: fp: stack overflow fppc=0x23304

[9fans] oh, no!

hi, all, after two weeks of unsuccessful installation IDE CD to SATA HD, wit any conceivable combination of BIOS settings and 'boot from' settings, i bought a SATA CD, so now I have HD ( to be installed onto) on SATA1 CD *( to be installed from) on SATA2, and SATA configured as IDE in BIOS,

[9fans] installation on SATA

hi, would an installation on SATA-IIdisk be smooth provided I have HD on sdE0, and CD on sdE1 (with appropriately modified plan9.ini)?? (going forSATA-CD if yes), thanks, ++pac

[9fans] installation on SATYA disk failed

Hi, folks! I have bought a WDC WD1002FBYS-01A6B0 SATA II disk to install a Plan 9 on it. However , my CD/DVD drive is not SATA, but a rather old one hanging on an IDE cable (primary master). Moreover, there is only one IDE slot on the motherboard, thus I cannot make the CD to be 'secondary

Re: [9fans] installation on SATA disk failed

I have enabled AHCI in bios (instead of IDE mode before), now I can boot from sdE0!dos!9pcflop.gz, but only up to '[partdisk]: no disk devices were found on your system. The installation process cannot continue.' I still get 'biosdiskcall: int 13 op 041 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x1',

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

hi, i'm quite happy with the 'cpdir' by Kenji Arisawa (thanks, Kenji!) on sources/contrib/arisawa. However, your scripty seems fine, too. Could we add a switch to conform with gnu's cp -au? Just not to overwrite newer files. I don't know there is an option there in 'tar' (I can't see in in

Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

Maybe, it would also be great if the column-handle could react in the same way as the window-handle works: B3 to hide all other columns, B2 to show all and maximize the current column, B1 widen the current column. I don't know whether it is even possible in current design, nor, if it is, how

Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

Maybe, it would also be great if the column-handle could react in the same way as the window-handle works: B3 to hide all other columns, B2 to show all and maximize the current column, B1 widen the current column. wily does this ufff, so could sb put his/her hands on it to bring

Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

I also take issue with the statement Acme is a text editor, that never sounds right, no more than describing Emacs as a text editor. It's natural to use Acme as a text editor and it provides many more text-editing facilities than Rio does, but it is also natural to use it as a file

[9fans] Announcing: glimpse (APE)

An APE-port of the 'glimpse text indexing and search suite is on sources: /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/glimpse-4.18.6.tbz http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/glimpse-4.18.6.tbz Included is 'agrep', grep with spelling errors. Unfortunately, all the

[9fans] preprocessing C code

Hi all, I'm APE-porting some programs densely peppered wioth #-directives. Is there a way to preprocess the code, say: #define CLIENTSERVER0 #if CLIENTSERVER blah blah blah... #else //some useful code here #endif /*CLIENTSERVER*/ to get: //some useful code here ?? I mean, just to

[9fans] which model of SATA II HD?

Does anyone have a SATA II 1TB (or more) hard drive working under Plan 9? I am about to buy one, and it would be nice to know that the model was tested. And yes, I read the wiki, but I don't know how to realize about which controller is used by the by the HD in my basklet :-) thanks, ++pac.

Re: [9fans] preprocessing C code

Thanks, going there, Peter. -Original Message- I'm APE-porting some programs densely peppered wioth #-directives. I have this too, try: contrib/install steve/unifdef -Steve winmail.dat

Re: [9fans] How to add another (local) fossil partition?

-Původní zpráva- Od: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net za uživatele Yaroslav Odesláno: pá 26.6.2009 15:40 Komu: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Předmět: Re: [9fans] How to add another (local) fossil partition? Thank you , Yaroslav. I missed the fossil(4) manpage. I'll try again on Monday,

[9fans] How to add another (local) fossil partition?

hello, i want to format and add a free space on /dev/sdC0 for use with fossil. i ended up with /dev/sdC0/plan9 and /dev/sdC0/plan9.1 partitions... then i did: disk/prep –w –a fossil /dev/sdC0/plan9.1 but now, i cant find any clue what to do next , in prep(8), or fossilcons(8) sorry for this

Re: [9fans] window's content clearing

Wouldn't Acme be a nice UI? (Repeating myself, sorry). ++pac In acme you can do something like Edit ,$-1d but I don't know how to deal with a terminal outside acme. 2009/4/8, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com: Hello, Imagine I have a rio window with a long history,

Re: [9fans] music video that everone on this list will agree with :-)

Yep!! Another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5LNTTGDKYo ++pac == C++ is to C as lung cancer is to lung . [anonymous on the Web] == winmail.dat

[9fans] pdf2txt anyone??

hi all!! seeking existing solutions to PDF -- txt extraction before i dive to rewriting xpdf to C. i hope that [page /|| gs] must be capable of it ... best regards, ++pac

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-Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net on behalf of mattmob...@proweb.co.uk Sent: Mon 2/23/2009 1:13 AM To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: [9fans] actionfs Hi, this one was an experiment /n/sources/contrib/maht/actionfs.c invoked with a regex like actionfs

Re: [9fans] pdf2txt anyone??

Thanks, Steve! Have a great day, ++pac -Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net on behalf of Steve Simon Sent: Thu 3/5/2009 10:18 PM To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] pdf2txt anyone?? This may work for you but your mileage may vary. /n/sources/contrib/steve/rc/ps2txt

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

I found a mirror at http://www.kix.in/plan9/mirror/sources/contrib/ It is working, cheers, ++pac -Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net on behalf of Pietro Gagliardi Sent: Tue 2/10/2009 5:13 AM To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Subject: Re: [9fans] Web interface to

[9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

? ++pac

Re: [9fans] Small program PlanKey (paraphrase of DOSKey)

Yes, it is more about the number of options than anything else. i go a little further. after using acme, menus sure feel clunky. [cut] How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon? thanks, ++pac winmail.dat

Re: [9fans] Small program PlanKey (paraphrase of DOSKey)

How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon? From a UI design perspective, it's not clear what it ought to look like. More strongly, I'm not really convinced there *is* a good way for a UI like that to work. You'd have all the problems the X11 tiled window managers

Re: [9fans] troff bibliography

i have aded the -B option from heirloom to forsyth's port of refer, plus a simple script 'roffbib.rc' that makes complete bibliography from the database, plus a tmac.bib macro; the stuff is in: /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/refer.tgz until, perhaps, forsyth will host it?? enjoy,

Re: [9fans] troff bibliography

seems like doref() does it all... ++pac winmail.dat

[9fans] troff bibliography

Hi, how do I publish complete bibliographies w/ refer | troff? (on loonix I use this: /usr/bin/refer -B bib | nroff -mbib but with refer and tmac.bib from heirloom-doctools: the -B option is essential (beat me for still using loonix)) thanks, ++pac.

Re: [9fans] troff bibliography

yes. i have it, but it does not work due to the lack of -B switch. i took and edited the tmac.bib from heirloom sources, however -B in refer seems to be essentiali'm diving into heirloom refer2.c to see what -B does... thanks, ++pac. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

Re: [9fans] troff bibliography

yep. i'll try just referallies, and we'll see. looks like it wouldn't make much problem, namely if i follow the style forsyth did the ape port... thanks, regards, peter, aka ++pac. This is probably because the Heirloom tools are different from the Plan 9 tools. I think you should try

Re: [9fans] ext2srv

Hi, I noticed that ext2srv did not do well with files 2GB,and, says 'disk full' when there is more than (I guess) 1024 files in a directory. However, I do not have the latest distribution of ext2srv... Thanks for your work, iru! ++pac -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

Re: [9fans] ext2srv

Does it still suffer from the 2GB size problem, or s it solved already? Thanks, ++pac On 5/12/08, Iruata Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9fans, I have hacked ext2srv to support symlinks so that now, when resolving a name, a walk will present the client with the file pointed to by the

Re: [9fans] ext2srv

would help me much until I get rid of linux completely. I have dirs with big photos (~ 300MB each) so I had to split them into subdirs to hadle them via ext2srv. i also tried tofiddle with the source, but I gave up. Many thanks, ++pac. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

Re: [9fans] Worksheet program

You might try control(2) instead. See /sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum/fgui.c /sys/src/cmd/bitsy/keyboard.c for examples. Sape Alternatively, you might like to use Acme interface. ++pac winmail.dat

Re: [9fans] Worksheet program

Do you think it is very cool to program in plan9 ? yep. winmail.dat