[9fans] sed Q

2010-03-04 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
hi, i would like to append next line if current ends with ']' however sed '/\]$/N' foo does not work... ++pac

Re: [9fans] troff connected problem, blanks instead of letters

2010-03-04 Thread Russ Cox
> in plan9port I format my text with > > 9 pic graph.ms | 9 eqn | 9 troff -ms | 9 tr2post | 9 psfonts > graph.ps > > My problem is that for some reason I can't typeset letters like \(dd, > \(dg, \(em, and others. > I usually get a blank space in the resulting postscript (but e.g. > instead of \(dd

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread erik quanstrom
> I think a broken table would make a better platform than a PC, and it > seems to be getting worse. this may be true. but can you name another platform? arm is a cpu grab bag, not a platform. > It certainly seems like there is a slight renewed interest in RISC > machines. alternatve interp

Re: [9fans] cleaning up gentoo plan9port ebuild

2010-03-04 Thread erik quanstrom
> > * Gentoo's plan9port also sets DEPEND="x11-apps/xauth". Is xauth a > > build or runtime dependency? > > I think it would be a runtime dependency, xauth pulls in all the X11 > libraries so you can X forward the GUIs from a headless machine. On the > other hand, most of my binaries seem to be

Re: [9fans] cleaning up gentoo plan9port ebuild

2010-03-04 Thread Andy Spencer
> * Gentoo's plan9port also sets DEPEND="x11-apps/xauth". Is xauth a > build or runtime dependency? I think it would be a runtime dependency, xauth pulls in all the X11 libraries so you can X forward the GUIs from a headless machine. On the other hand, most of my binaries seem to be statically l

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Mar 4 17:15:19 EST 2010, david.eckha...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: > > for example, there are a number of 10/100 chipsets that have > > good documentation that's under 100 pages. complete with > > (oh, my) a theory of operation. > > Such as? and On Thu Mar 4 20:28:36 EST 2010, ge...@plan9.bell-

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread geoff
Can you provide more details of your `ipconfig ra6 recvra 1' failure? What happens? What's printed? What's in /sys/log/v6routeradv (you may have to create it first)? It's not worth supporting any new 10Mb ethernet controllers, and new 100Mb ones are borderline.

Re: [9fans] GSoC application template/examples

2010-03-04 Thread Anthony Sorace
I should rephrase that -- are there any changes that should be made to the 2008 application template for current applications? Yes. Overall, I think our template worked well, but it wasn't perfect. In particular, I think we want to be a bit clearer about expectations going in, and I think

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Mar 4, 2010, at 4:13 PM, ron minnich wrote: The big thing I'd like to see as a GSOC project, and which I think is doable, is a first-class set of drivers for the beagle and/or IGEP. The beagle is cheap and would be a very nice terminal. It's close on some fronts. We really need video. USB

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread ron minnich
The big thing I'd like to see as a GSOC project, and which I think is doable, is a first-class set of drivers for the beagle and/or IGEP. The beagle is cheap and would be a very nice terminal. It's close on some fronts. We really need video. USB is not there yet. There are other problems. At the

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread erik quanstrom
> > 2) Add support for more SATA/AHCI controlers; I have: > > FWIW, GSoC projects that amount to ``add some drivers for my non-linux > OS!'' have historically been unpopular, unfinished, and generally > unloved projects (perhaps barring last year, when I didn't really pay > attention). I recommen

[9fans] troff connected problem, blanks instead of letters

2010-03-04 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, in plan9port I format my text with 9 pic graph.ms | 9 eqn | 9 troff -ms | 9 tr2post | 9 psfonts > graph.ps My problem is that for some reason I can't typeset letters like \(dd, \(dg, \(em, and others. I usually get a blank space in the resulting postscript (but e.g. instead of \(dd I got

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread Chad Brown
> 2) Add support for more SATA/AHCI controlers; I have: FWIW, GSoC projects that amount to ``add some drivers for my non-linux OS!'' have historically been unpopular, unfinished, and generally unloved projects (perhaps barring last year, when I didn't really pay attention). I recommend agains

Re: [9fans] compiler warnings for libavl/avl.c

2010-03-04 Thread Russ Cox
+plan9port-dev, -9fans > At the moment the compiler is set to report all warnings (-Wall). That's not true. Many warnings are grepped out (look inside 9c). What is the exact warning you are getting from libavl? Russ

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread erik quanstrom
> > 2) Add support for more SATA/AHCI controlers; I have: > [...] > 00:05.0 SATA controller [0106]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AHCI > IDE Controller (0106) [1039:1185] (rev 03) > > is seems to be supported by the 9load and, or kernel, but I could not > install neither the plan9 not 9atom o

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-04 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 03/04/2010 04:41 AM, Tim Newsham wrote: > Some people were asking on #plan9 -- will there be any GSOC > projects this year? Time is ticking down. What about? 1) Improving IPv6 stack, particularly the router advertisements part, ip/ipconfig -6 # works fine ip/ipconfig ra6 rec

Re: [9fans] cleaning up gentoo plan9port ebuild

2010-03-04 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 03/04/2010 01:55 AM, EBo wrote: > While working on merging and cleaning up the 3 or 4 different portage ebuild > trees for plan9 and plan9port I ran into a number of things which I need > clarified: > > * Gentoo's plan9port report's the license as MIT, yet the LICENSE file says it > is Lucent-1

Re: [9fans] acme line wrap bug

2010-03-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Feb 12 11:49:37 EST 2010, r...@swtch.com wrote: > > acme doesn't always clear the right margin to compensate for > > the different amount of right-margin slop due to different > > character widths.  in this case ">" is very wide and won't fit > > in the space that "n" did.  so the n is mista

Re: [9fans] GSoC application template/examples

2010-03-04 Thread EBo
> Is there an application template and/or copies of previously successful GSoC > applications available? I should rephrase that -- are there any changes that should be made to the 2008 application template for current applications? EBo --

[9fans] GSoC application template/examples

2010-03-04 Thread EBo
Is there an application template and/or copies of previously successful GSoC applications available? EBo --

Re: [9fans] 9P on android

2010-03-04 Thread Rahul Murmuria
Hi Tim! On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: > Npfs is in C.  You could make java bindings to it, but it would > probably be more work than it's worth. > > I've been using a few 9p servers from android.  I have > a java library that does 9p service that I'm using.  Here's > some cod

Re: [9fans] CD iso image and SATA CDROM on P5Q Pro

2010-03-04 Thread kokamoto
> the second error could be either > (a) a driver bug. the sources driver may have trouble > with some bugs in the sb600 that you've got. > (b) a misbehaving drive. if this is the case, the drive > could be unhealthy. Of course, I suppose so. The bios can load 9load, I suppose it's driver bug.