[9fans] upstreaming a port of gawk -tips and opinions?

2012-02-23 Thread Jens Staal
The author of gawk is interested in getting the changes needed to compile on Plan9 upstream. The port [1] has been slightly updated again and the Hg repository will be updated with the last changes as soon as I got time (main.c now vanilla). Since I most likely will have to backport my

Re: [9fans] upstreaming a port of gawk -tips and opinions?

2012-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
by the way, there is a current port of brian's awk in contrib quanstro/awk. - erik

[9fans] Some things never change

2012-02-23 Thread John Floren
While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans archive and noticed something: The 13th message ever sent to 9fans (http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about find. Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993 John

Re: [9fans] Some things never change

2012-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 23 19:35:56 EST 2012, j...@jfloren.net wrote: While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans archive and noticed something: The 13th message ever sent to 9fans (http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about find. Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993

Re: [9fans] Some things never change

2012-02-23 Thread Jack Johnson
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.com wrote: pfft.  we've always had find.  we've just called it du. It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it that way on Linux. -Jack