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

2010-01-26 Thread yy
2010/1/26 Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com:  Not sure how the concept of a line delimited by newlines relates to moving the cursor up one physical line on the screen. Working out where to move the cursor to Still I dare claim that moving a cursor up one visible line has nothing to do

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

2010-01-26 Thread Robert Raschke
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.comwrote: Not sure how the concept of a line delimited by newlines relates to moving the cursor up one physical line on the screen. Working out where to move the cursor to Still I dare claim that moving a cursor up one

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

2010-01-26 Thread erik quanstrom
nothing to do with the concept of a line delimited by newlines. For the movement, such delimited lines are completely irrelevant. For the movement there is no difference whether there is a newline on the previous visible line or the line was broken due to the width of the window.

Re: [9fans] partial cp

2010-01-26 Thread maht
modify the source of fc to specify an offset is probably your easiest solution if you want to carry on copying at the same speed. If you're going to start hacking fcp then just add a switch that says 'resume' and it works out the offset for you

Re: [9fans] partial cp

2010-01-26 Thread roger peppe
modify the source of fc to specify an offset is probably your easiest solution if you want to carry on copying at the same speed. 2010/1/25 maht maht-9f...@maht0x0r.net: On 25/01/2010 01:45, Akshat Kumar wrote: what are some suggested ways to copy just the rest of the file, without starting

[9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)

2010-01-26 Thread Matt Adams
Hi folks: I've installed Plan 9 on another of my systems and so far so good. This configuration is an all-in-one fossil+venti system. Nothing has been extended beyond the default ISO. After I installed and rebooted I noticed that the hard drive light came on and stayed on. It's been on for

Re: [9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Simon
It will take a very long time, espicially if your IDE controller is not known or it is and DMA is known to be problematic. I suggest you resign yourself to leaving the machine on for many hours, and then, when it stops rattling its disks, you shut it down (using the fshalt command). -Steve

Re: [9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)

2010-01-26 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Jan 26 15:22:22 EST 2010, st...@quintile.net wrote: It will take a very long time, espicially if your IDE controller is not known or it is and DMA is known to be problematic. the output of sossd (/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/sossd) is useful if you suspect a problem. i'll have a look if

[9fans] Logitech Wireless Optical Trackman

2010-01-26 Thread Matt Adams
Folks: I am using a Logitech Wireless Optical Trackman. When using Linux I need to remap a couple of the buttons using the line pointer = 1 2 9 4 5 6 7 8 3 in my .Xmodmap file. Button 1 works as expected and in the shell I can only get access to the cut, paste, snarf... menu with buttons 8

Re: [9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)

2010-01-26 Thread Matt Adams
It will take a very long time, espicially if your IDE controller is not known or it is and DMA is known to be problematic. Thanks, Steve. The disks finally quieted down early this afternoon. I just didn't expect it to take that long. Matt

Re: [9fans] partial cp

2010-01-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com wrote: hget does something similar, don't know, I'll usually just restart copying the file. that's a little much in this case (big file, going over the local network) On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, maht