Re: [9fans] Writer's Workbench (was: troff refer and bib)

2021-04-09 Thread sirjofri
09.04.2021 23:45:47 Xiao-Yong Jin : On Apr 9, 2021, at 12:57 PM, sirjofri wrote: Writer's Workbench https://git.sr.ht/~sirjofri/wwb9 (Works on 9, but I need to make it better for different platforms and some tools need adjustments. Send patches.) What exactly is the license?  Even just

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
> On Apr 9, 2021, at 12:57 PM, sirjofri wrote: > > Writer's Workbench > > https://git.sr.ht/~sirjofri/wwb9 > > (Works on 9, but I need to make it better for different platforms and some > tools need adjustments. Send patches.) What exactly is the license? Even just reading code of unclear li

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread sirjofri
09.04.2021 21:51:50 Charles Forsyth : I personally found the code hard to read, The original looked like this: Yeah, I've seen the original wwb Unix V10 code. Looks very similar... But still I'm surprised I got it to compile without many adjustments. Most changes were pure syntax changes.

Re: [9fans] 9P reading directories client/server behavior

2021-04-09 Thread Russ Cox
On March 9, 2021, Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > I was trying to use 9fans/go/plan9/client.Fid.Dirreadall > [https://github.com/9fans/go/blob/master/plan9/client/fid.go#L54-L60] > and found that it returned fewer entries than a single Dirread. The > reason is that Dirreadall uses

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread Charles Forsyth
> I personally found the code hard to read, The original looked like this: tabs (sv, line) char *sv[], *line; { char *p; int n 0; sv[n++] = line; for( p= line; *p; p++) { if (*p == '\n') { *p=0; sv[n++] = p+1; } } return(n-1); } class (nt, tv)

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread sirjofri
09.04.2021 18:25:32 David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com>: may be offtopic but now I'm just curious :-) what's wwb ? Writer's Workbench. Writer's Workbench https://git.sr.ht/~sirjofri/wwb9 (Works on 9, but I need to make it better for different platforms and some tools need adjustments.

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread David du Colombier
> may be offtopic but now I'm just curious :-) what's wwb ? Writer's Workbench. https://archive.org/details/wwb-user -- David du Colombier -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2e70e97724f65028-Md4922718a45eddc8adecd3ce Del

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread Maurizio Boriani
sirjofri writes: > (This reminds me, I should finish my wwb port, but that's offtopic.) may be offtopic but now I'm just curious :-) what's wwb ? thanks, -- Maurizio Boriani PGP key: 0xCC0FBF8F -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread sirjofri
09.04.2021 16:39:53 Charles Forsyth : I still use it. I think it differs in many ways from the original version (the Caldera licence was to allow the 7th Edition code to be used in 2002). Nice to read from you! I personally found the code hard to read, but I feel it's just normal for the c

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread Maurizio Boriani
Charles Forsyth writes: > I still use it. I think it differs in many ways from the original > version the version you contributed in extra/refer.tgz ? Thanks, best regards. -- Maurizio Boriani PGP key: 0xCC0FBF8F -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https:

Re: [9fans] troff refer and bib

2021-04-09 Thread Charles Forsyth
I still use it. I think it differs in many ways from the original version (the Caldera licence was to allow the 7th Edition code to be used in 2002). Not least that it's formatted and arranged to be readable. It made some things dynamic so it could handle large reference libraries. There were bug f

Re: [9fans] Foundation new releases question

2021-04-09 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021, at 3:39 PM, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > > Yep. I might be able to understand that change, but less so the later > > breaking change to 9p auth. > > What 9p change for auth are you talking about? > > The dp9ik implementation in 9front just uses p9any to negotiate > it a