[9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread V-CA ! Christoph Paschke
@Nemo Ok,I just want start with a very easy constellation: 1.) I installed octopuson top of myMacMini (newest version) at my televison in living room, he running also Mac-Server 2.) I got the terminal started at an older MacBook 3.) I have a HP Envy 100 WLAN Inkjet printer / Scanner integrated

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-03-13, at 11:14 AM, V-CA ! Christoph Paschke wrote: For me it is most important that I can realize what is promised from that operting system according all resources, also devices are a file and that this idea is more than a theory! This only applies if you're running native Plan

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Nemo
I think in the octopus we have a print device that used the underlying default printer. It should be in /mnt/print or /mnt/terms/yourmachinename/print Take a look to the start scripts to see if print is starting or printing some diagnostics. So, cp afile.pdf /mnt/print should print it there.

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-03-13, at 11:55 AM, Nemo wrote: What Lyndon said is also true, btw. I'm not saying it's not. Only that you can also wrap non-native devices with little file servers, as in this case. It's just very confusing knowing how P9 concepts apply in an emulated environment. It's frustrating

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread erik quanstrom
It's just very confusing knowing how P9 concepts apply in an emulated environment. It's frustrating even for those of us (okay, me) who have been tooling around with P9P (and the like) for years. Every day a new surprise ... :-| p9p's raison is to get along with the local environment,

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-03-13, at 12:03 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: this naturally puts it somewhat at odds with itself. Sadly, I think that's what turns people away from Plan 9: they only get to see a pale shadow of its worth :-(

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Mar 13 15:08:48 EDT 2012, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: On 2012-03-13, at 12:03 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: this naturally puts it somewhat at odds with itself. Sadly, I think that's what turns people away from Plan 9: they only get to see a pale shadow of its worth :-( its a plan 9

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:14 AM, V-CA ! Christoph Paschke c.pasc...@me.com wrote: @Nemo Ok, I just want start with a very easy constellation: 1.) I installed octopus on top of my MacMini (newest version) at my televison in living room, he running also Mac-Server 2.) I got the terminal