Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image

2013-06-28 Thread Paul A. Patience
Terry Wendt silicon.pengui...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your response erik. The machine I'm trying to boot this on is an old dell inspiron 530. 9front runs fine on my dell inspiron 530. i have to boot it with *acpi= in plan9.ini, though. pap

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-28 Thread Paul A . Patience
did you enable *acpi= when booting 9front? see the section Boot at [1]. pap [1] http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/troubleshooting

Re: [9fans] sam on Windows?

2013-06-10 Thread Paul A. Patience
Brian Vito brian.v...@gmail.com wrote: What is the current status of sam on Windows? Does anyone have a version that runs under Windows 7? The one from http://ib.wmipf.de/pf9.html doesn't seem to work anymore. Thanks very much. latest version is here:

Re: [9fans] Bug in print(2) g verb

2013-03-03 Thread Paul A. Patience
I would also like it if %g acted the same in plan9 as everywhere else (printing 0.1 instead of .1 in my example). That's also really easy to change. It doesn't make sense for plan9port's %g to be different from plan9, because now you cannot even count on both prints to work the same way. Since

Re: [9fans] Bug in print(2) g verb

2013-03-03 Thread Paul A. Patience
I would also like it if %g acted the same in plan9 as everywhere else (printing 0.1 instead of .1 in my example). That's also really easy to change. It doesn't make sense for plan9port's %g to be different from plan9, because now you cannot even count on both prints to work the same way. Since

Re: [9fans] doing a native awk port (was Re: Bug in print(2) g verb)

2013-03-03 Thread Paul A. Patience
I am actually the one who asked bwk for his test suite, which he later put on github. I started with some gawk tests while waiting for the test suite, however. As for plan9's awk, it runs on ape. I am trying to make it run without ape. I had thought of starting with the latest version of awk, but