Re: [Toybox] freadahead()

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 2:25 AM Rob Landley wrote: And speaking of PostgreSQL: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/trademark-actions-against-the-postgresql-community-2302/ > Rob __ Dennis ___ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net

Re: [Toybox] Instructional video.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 2:33 PM Rob Landley wrote: > But yes, toysh is to the point where lack of command history is what's > limiting > _me_ from using it more. So I'm poking at it. But $DAYJOB (since new year's > I'm > back at https://coresemi.io working on an ASIC tapeout) is eating

Re: [Toybox] The cut -C test is failing because bionic's wcwidth() doesn't match glibc or musl.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 2:00 AM Rob Landley wrote: > It's 4xSMP@1.5 ghz, can have 8 gigs ram, and storage shouldn't be an issue > either (Walmart is currently claiming to have a 2TB usb3 stick on sale for > $12, > and amazon says a 1TB sd card is $30. Can't vouch for either, but I bought a >

Re: [Toybox] GitHub Action Example

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 4:27 PM enh via Toybox wrote: > (i'm personally looking forward to the web editor they've talked about, > if it's anything close to Visual Studio Code --- which it ought to be, given > that that's just Javascript.) You mean this? https://www.gitpod.io/ Looks like it

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] vi: don't exit on ^C or ^D.

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 2:34 AM Jarno Mäkipää wrote: > > I looked into ex commands little bit more, All the edits seem to be > line based or correct me if im wrong? No, that's correct. Ex is a line editor. AT Unix provided vi, ex, and view. Vi was the full screen editor. Ex was a line

Re: [Toybox] Fwd: build help please with toybox

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:29 PM scsijon wrote: > > It'd be nice if a modern https://ellcc.org happened. :( > > this site is bringing alarms up in firefox, Potential Security Risk> > > Websites prove their identity via certificates, which are valid for a > set time period. The certificate for

Re: [Toybox] Editor for toybox?

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 7:50 PM scsijon wrote: > > Do I remember you considering adding a multi-purpose editor into > toybox?, one of our puppy folk came across SUE which origonated from VDE > back in 1982 which was created by Richard Forbes. Not exactly. Richard Forbes wrote a CP/M editor

Re: [Toybox] make tests

On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 2:56 PM Rob Landley wrote: > On 12/27/18 6:38 PM, enh wrote: > > > the error is `continue: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while', or 'until' > > loop`. > > (there are 'until' loops?) > > I have no idea, but should probably look it up for toysh. Bash has until loops:

Re: [Toybox] --help annoyance

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 3:26 PM Kevin Spiteri wrote: >> >> > Have you tried the "Never send it to spam" gmail filter action? >> >> I didn't know there was one? Hmmm... didn't find it when I was fishing Nick >> Kralevich's message out of the spam filter. (Somewhere under gear->configure >> account

Re: [Toybox] [landley/toybox] busybox.exe for MSWindows is available, but not toybox.exe for MSWindows (#61)

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 01/21/2017 09:10 PM, zaxebo1 wrote: >> busybox compiled for ms windows is available at >> https://frippery.org/busybox/ >> https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32 >> >> but i do not find any such binary for toybox. Is

Re: [Toybox] --version for all commands?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:32 PM, enh wrote: > (on the "it was good enough for busybox" front: is there an OS where > busybox is the default? or are folks with busybox implementing their > /bin all cognizant of the fact because they had to manually do that to > themselves in the

Re: [Toybox] awk seen in the wild

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Rob Landley wrote: >> This is the problem with DSLs... shell, make, awk, and presumably bc >> all started out as very specific languages, for different purposes. >> Over time, they all grew a C-like imperative language. And nobody >> wants to

Re: [Toybox] awk seen in the wild

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Andy Chu wrote: > However, I did a bunch of research and hacking on Kernighan's Awk. I > was trying to morph it into a "proper" modern language. For example, > you could imagine writing "ls" or "xargs" or even a shell in Awk, sort > of like

Re: [Toybox] awk (Re: ps down, top to go)

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Andy Chu wrote: > Kernighan Awk (updated 2012) - 8K lines. Lucent BSD? license. Yacc grammar. According to the README in the source "/ Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997

Re: [Toybox] ps and top (and Android)

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > That said, there should be _A_ standard. Somewhere. LSB isn't it. Posix > is losing it. Maybe when we've finally got android self-hosting somebody > should document the minimal set of interfaces necessary to run the > build,

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Fix more to a non-tty.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 6:38 PM, enh wrote: > yeah, i'm pretty sure 100% of our more(1) users are using because we > don't have less. I'd be inclined to say "Don't bother with more as a short term fix. Properly implement less, and symlink it to more." Since you have an

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Fix more to a non-tty.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 5:40 PM, enh wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Rob Landley wrote: >> On 04/21/2016 07:42 PM, enh wrote: > > having more(1) be the simplest possible thing probably best matches > the intentions of anyone who deliberately chooses

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Implement mv -n / cp -n (no clobber).

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Andy Chu wrote: > Sure I could just go change coreutils and bash ... I've been puzzling > through the bash source code and considering that. > bash is like 175K+ lines of code, and If you wanted to support all of > it, I think you would end

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Add xxd -p and -r.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > Why does posix even bother having od if nobody seems to use it? I've used od, though not in some time. > (Why does posix still maintain its standard documents in SCCS? > Seriously, sccs->rcs->cvs->svn->bk->git means it's

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Implement ps -O.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > On 01/24/2016 10:06 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> One of the things I've been watching for a while is convergence, and >> the idea that you'll run a flavor of the *same* OS on any device you >> may

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Implement ps -O.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > I'm hoping that in future Android grows a userbase plugging their phone > into a USB hub with hdmi adapter, mouse, and keyboard (or chromecasting > to their TV with bluetooth keyboard and mouse) that can actually pop up > a

Re: [Toybox] make

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:54 AM, stephen Turner stephen.n.tur...@gmail.com wrote: so Gnu make isnt bad but it isnt that great either, I found what looks like it might be a nice little make program but the depressing down side is it uses a new language tcl. its so simple! I dont understand why

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] optional fatter cat(1)

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 1:39 AM, David Seikel onef...@gmail.com wrote: I have a simple test to decide if I like an editor as a result of these decades of random editor usage. If I can't sit down with the editor and figure out how to do basic editing and saving in less than a minute (sans

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] optional fatter cat(1)

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Marc André Tanner m...@brain-dump.org wrote: I plan to implement vi over the next year I agree that there is a need for a clean vi(m) like editor. Based on my experience I got from writing my own work in progress clone[0], the problem is that while the basic

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] optional fatter cat(1)

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Rich Felker dal...@libc.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:21:26PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: I plan to implement vi over the next year, but it's one of the four realy big commands required by posix (sed, awk, sh, vi) and I've been debugging sed against

[Toybox] Fwd: [PATCH] optional fatter cat(1)

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:42 PM, enh e...@google.com wrote: (very off-topic at this point, but vim doesn't use ncurses under any circumstances. moreover, it turns out that vim actually has all kinds of different fallbacks and as long as you don't misconfigure it like i did, it builds and runs

Re: [Toybox] Getting Toybox into Android before the NetBSD userland wins out

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:23 PM, David Seikel onef...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:11:41 + (UTC) Jason Spiro jasonspiro4+gm...@gmail.com wrote: Once Toybox gets into Android, it might then be possible to convince the Android maintainers to provide symlinks from /system/bin to

Re: [Toybox] Ah, gmail.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Rob Landley r...@landley.net wrote: Do I have to select plain text mode _every_time_ when using gmail's web ui to compose an email? Doesn't do that here. New messages default to plain text. What browser are you using? Rob __ Dennis