[9fans] Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021

2021-02-02 Thread Jeff Sickel
Everyone, It is good to see enthusiasm floating around 9fans and others as we’ve announced that we are applying to Google Summer of Code 2021 to be a mentor organization again. It truly has been too long since Plan 9, Inferno, plan9ports, and related technologies, outside of pure Go projects,

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 troff paper size solution

2021-02-02 Thread sirjofri
Quoth John A. : > I've been trying to figure out how to create A4 documents with > Plan 9 troff. Looking at the source of dpost and the PostScript > output of GNU troff, I found a very easy solution. > > 1. Call dpost with -P to set the correct page size: > >dpost -P '<< /PageSize [ 595 842

Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

2021-02-02 Thread Pouya Tafti
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:23:44PM +, sirjofri wrote: > As far as I know there is a mirror or remake of the original contrib at > 9p.io, but I'm not sure. > > Since you were away for 15 years you might want to check out other Plan 9 > forks. The most active one is probably 9front[1], which con

Re: [9fans] 9p.zone: Public 9P Registry Services

2021-02-02 Thread sirjofri
27.01.2021 11:07:28 fge...@gmail.com: Nice, thanks! mount -A tcp!registry.9p.zone!registry /mnt/registry worked from inferno on the day you sent the announcement, but it does not seem to connect now. Is it supposed to work now? The registry should be online 24/7. It's possible that we sometim

[9fans] Plan 9 troff paper size solution

2021-02-02 Thread John A.
Hi everyone, I've been trying to figure out how to create A4 documents with Plan 9 troff. Looking at the source of dpost and the PostScript output of GNU troff, I found a very easy solution. 1. Call dpost with -P to set the correct page size: dpost -P '<< /PageSize [ 595 842 ] /ImagingBBox n

Re: [9fans] Acme Mail editable from address

2021-02-02 Thread pdt
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Re: [9fans] Acme Mail editable from address

2021-02-02 Thread pdt
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Re: [9fans] Project idea (was: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-02 Thread sirjofri
Quoth Anthony Sorace : > 1. Project ideas. [...] Another Android project idea I was thinking about for some time: It is possible to add another password management tool to android, like lastpass and others. I thought it might be useful to have a secstore-compatible factotum-like native android a

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-02 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:16:58AM +, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: > Anthony Sorace writes: > > > Hello! After a few years away, we?ll be applying to Google?s Summer of Code > > program again this year. > > ... > > > 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the applic