Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com, sources down this

2012-11-01 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > On 31 October 2012 10:13, kali wrote: >> is it still offline ? the name doesnt even resolve. > > There has been a storm, I believe. Seems Plan 9 is after all vulnerable to a certain kind of buffer overflow…. ☺ —Joel

[9fans] pound symbol for troff

2012-11-01 Thread Steve Simon
Never having fiddled with troff's font tables anyone care to give me a quick tutorial on how to add missing characters, the one I need at present is 0x00a3 = '£' = UK pound symbol. Thanks, -Steve

Re: [9fans] win from acme starts bash

2012-11-01 Thread Costin Chirvasuta
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:01 PM, dexen deVries wrote: > if you start Acme from X.org desktop, you run it in environment defined upon > login to X.org. Re-logging to X.org should do the trick. > > KDE's kdm seem to read both /etc/profile{,.d/*} and ~/.profile; not sure about > ~/.bash_profile or ~