Re: [9fans] problem with a here document in rc

2013-05-06 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, so I repeat my question. While this is possible in bash: ;cat aBash for i in 1 2 3 do cat ! $i ! done ; ;bash aBash 1 2 3 ; it doesn't work in rc: ;cat aRc for(i in 1 2 3) { cat ! } $i ! ; ;rc aRc ; Is this as it should be? Can the rc example be modified --- still using a

Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-05-06 Thread tlaronde
So I have read the various man pages (starting from plan9.ini that only sets environment values) to vga. If I understand correctly, the vesa adjusting is only done if the monitor variable is set to 'vesa', value that do not appear in the database. Previously, I have used other values for

Re: [9fans] problem with a here document in rc

2013-05-06 Thread erik quanstrom
Can the rc example be modified --- still using a here document --- so that it works? no. - erik

[9fans] exportfs -r vs /rc/bin/service/!tcp564

2013-05-06 Thread erik quanstrom
exportfs(4) claims that -r skips the initial protocol. but it appears that it only skips the initial part of the intial protocol, making ; cat /n/sources/plan9/rc/bin/service/!tcp564 #!/bin/rc mount '#s/boot' /root $rootspec exec /bin/exportfs -r /root incompatable

Re: [9fans] exportfs -r vs /rc/bin/service/!tcp564

2013-05-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon May 6 18:01:45 EDT 2013, a...@9srv.net wrote: Alternately, see /n/sources/patch/import-z. That seems like the right answer to me. isn't this trying to solve a problem already solved by srv(1) in an incompatable way? I assume you mean the !tcp564 example is incompatible with real *9p