Re: [9fans] Reimplementing Plan 9 in Go (Was: Re: [9front] bio io functions)

Cross fingers... On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Fran. J Ballesteros <n...@lsub.org> wrote: > not yet. > sorry for the "was". > > El 6 may 2017, a las 15:12, Peter A. Cejchan <tyap...@gmail.com> escribió: > > "clive was just another attempt"...o

Re: [9fans] Reimplementing Plan 9 in Go (Was: Re: [9front] bio io functions)

"clive was just another attempt"...oh, no... Clive is dead ??? On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > I don’t now if clive or not, > > but, I think the world has changed and I’d like to get a plan9 like > environment > but considering as the HW all the

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

It would be nice to have something like old Oberon OS had; I think acme was inspired in part by it (I may be wrong). Some time ago, I had some ideas on windowing design; were anyone interested, they're here: http/www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/newUI.pdf

Re: [9fans] text database Kirara

Sounds great! Thank you, Kenji !! ++pac On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:14 AM, arisawa aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: Hello 9fans, I have written a text database named Kirara. The following is a brief introduction to Kirara. If you are interested in, get Kirara from:

Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel?

I have ThinkPad T23 and the stick works with native Plan 9... ++pac On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Joseph Xu joseph...@gmail.com wrote: I usually just lurk here, but I didn't want anybody else to go through 3 different mice like I did (HP 3 button mouse, contour mouse, evoluent mouse)

Re: [9fans] Installing Go

If all fails, you can try out what worked for me some time ago: version go-93dc7f0e302b compiles out-of the box. Prerequisites: kernel post-Aug2012 8* suite post-March2012 VERSION file is needed if hg is not installed. Mercurial is only needed to generate the top-level VERSION file. You can work

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] graphics projects

Also, keep in mind that there is already a well known and popular tiling environment in Plan 9. If you are able to make a window manager with an acme feeling I'm sure many users would be interested. The challenge here is to have the good taste required to come up with the right design, and

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] graphics projects

devon.od...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/4/26 Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com: Also, keep in mind that there is already a well known and popular tiling environment in Plan 9. If you are able to make a window manager with an acme feeling I'm sure many users would be interested. The challenge

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] graphics projects

/help (which led to Acme), had graphics, and live rich text. You could cut a running animation and paste it in somewhere else. On 26 April 2013 08:11, Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com wrote: I also like very much the Acme's replacement of hard-coded menus by customizable taglines

Re: [9fans] documentation suggestion

on the Edit on the window i want the changes to happen. Easier and reusable. 2013/4/1 Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com however, in native Plan9, scrolling goes too fast for multi-line tagline :-) [yes, I know that I should keep commands short, but, e.g., Edit requires newline between commands

Re: [9fans] documentation suggestion

to save my time, could you, please, share that trick? Thanks, ++pac On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:45 AM, trebol trebol55...@yahoo.es wrote: Hello everyone, I've had problems discovering the feature of dragging button 1 to scroll the tag line. I have used first the p9p's acme, which has a more

Re: [9fans] documentation suggestion

+0200, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: to save my time, could you, please, share that trick? Thanks, ++pac Hello Peter, I suppose my English is too bad. The trick I was talking about is the dragging feature itself, sorry.

Re: [9fans] Acme Edit scriptlets

Thanks, very nice, mates! I humbly add some of minebelow. Best, ++pac # ## Latin äëïñöüÿÄÅËÏÖÜ ## Greek αβγδεζηθλμνξπρστφψωΓΔΘΛΞΠΣΦΨΩ ## select text :;# select all text :;25# select from start to line 25 (inclusive) :25;# select from line 25 (inclusive) to EOF Edit

Re: [9fans] Acme Edit scriptlets

Maybe it's time for an Acme wiki page? Also, could you share the plumbing rules you use (for my inspiration/learning)? Happy Easter, folks! ++pac On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:20 AM, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.comwrote: On Friday 29 of March 2013 01:38:06 Bence Fábián wrote: I did a quick

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

…. but it's already there. On Mar 23, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com wrote: I still hope that some clone of plan9/nix/nxm will merge with Go

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

Sorry for that. I am not a natuive speaker. English uses different punctuation then my mothertongue. However, I hope you got what I wanted to say. ++pac On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:08 PM, hiro 23h...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/23/13, Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com wrote: @Lucio: I still hope

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

So, you perceive it, too unfortunately, then there will be no more computers, even electric power nomads don't need it, and won't care :-( ++pac IMHO, with the advent of a crisis compared to which 1929 will be a minor storm, there will be a general disgust and lack of trust and a

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

Yep... On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:10 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:54:14AM +0100, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: So, you perceive it, too unfortunately, then there will be no more computers, even electric power nomads don't need it, and won't care :-( ++pac

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

@Lucio: I still hope that some clone of plan9/nix/nxm will merge with Go ... just my dream, and I am just an embryo of a programmer (as multiply stated here and elsewhere) so take it easy however, I'm moving all my old stuff (and creating new one) to Go [unfortunately, I am afraid I will

Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

Thank you, thank you, a _big_ thank you, folks! I will add a line how to parse the XFree86 Modeline to the wiki, the link is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline Now it works great with my Dell DELL U2412Mb monitor and NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] graphics card.

Re: [9fans] Acme button 1 working like button 3

Use native Plan9 ;-))) ++pac [sorry for being cheeky] On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:52 AM, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday 18 of March 2013 16:56:00 Patrick Higgins wrote: I am trying out Acme after watching rsc's tour at http://research.swtch.com/acme So far I have

[9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

Hi, 9friends, could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from Bell Labs ;-) ? Yes, I've read the wiki but it seems a bit outdated (?). Maybe not, I can't tell. Unfortunately, I am 50+ and my vision

Re: [9fans] mounting fossil

Okay, I'll give it a try. I must first decide on a (quasi)stable dir tree. The problem is that I have almost 2TB of data, so should I have another 2TB disk for Venti if I want to put there all? Thanks, Peter. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:54 PM, a...@9srv.net wrote: I reorganize my data very

Re: [9fans] mounting fossil

Thanks for warning! However, I reorganize my data very often, moving between dirs, renaming, reorganising tree structure... How will Venti cope with this? Fopr now, I plan to put the data onto an ext2 partition for now, until I feel the dir tree is well-designed. I just want to mount the fossil

[9fans] [RQ:] SATA HD 2+ TB native recommendations

Hi, folks, I am about to buy an internal HD for my native Plan9 box. I need 2TB or more, can anyone recommend me a model that is tested to work? Native, not p9p. Also, can anyone recommend a hi-res video card, SXGA+ or better, 24-bit depth? I am aware of the Supported PC Hardware page, of

Re: [9fans] install failing to detect SATA disk

Yes, I can recommend Erik' s 9atom, too, it solved my problems with installation onto a SATA-II HD some time ago... Regards, ++pac On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Back to the Plan 9 install issue on native h/w.. does Plan 9 support SATA

Re: [9fans] Do plan9 users know/use acme?

http://research.swtch.com/acme http://bendyworks.com/geekville/lab_projects/2012/11/getting-plan-9-running-on-the-raspberry-pi HTH, ++pac On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:59 AM, avoid9...@gmail.com wrote: And if so have they analysed WHY they like it? How mature [not too problematic for a plan9

Re: [9fans] a disk filesystem for both Plan 9 and Linux?

Yes. It was me. For the timer being, I tar the dirs w/too many files in. Would be glad to have that patch. Thanks, ++pac On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Richard Miller 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: Somebody recently reported a problem with ext2srv not working when directories are huge enough to

[9fans] How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ] ?

## How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ] ? # compound commands # remove outermost pair of braces: abcd(x+(y-z))efgh -- abcdx+(y-z)efgh [ no idea :-( ] # remove semicolon before // comments: xyz;[tab][space]*// -- xyz [ Edit /;[ ]*\/\// Edit s/;// # find and remove

Re: [9fans] How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ] ?

push button3. Looks complicated written down but it's a really quick and easy to learn sequence. 2013/1/11 Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com ## How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ] ? # compound commands # remove outermost pair of braces: abcd(x+(y-z))efgh -- abcdx+(y-z)efgh

Re: [9fans] refer ignoring dates 1999 (Y2K issue)

I did an ape port some tim,e ago, but I don know whether it has/has not this problem. You might check it out. Maybe you'll need to edit paths in mkfile. /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/refer.tbz regards/ahoj Petr On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Rudolf Sykora

Re: [9fans] empty *

This is from manpage, but I not sure what _exactly_ it means, and whether it applies to your problem: Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()=\ and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in single quotes '...'. An

Re: [9fans] Custom font (was: code highlighting)

size 16 looks good on 2048x1152 23'' displays. what graphics card do you use with these displays (natine)? thanks ++pac

Re: [9fans] code highlighting and copying text from PDF files

you could use ps2ascii foo.pdf foo.txt, and serch for the sentence there but it is not very convenient :-( ++pac

Re: [9fans] the `Look' command in Acme

select text in the first window 2-1 chord on Look in the second window's tag line how about running a command from another window, w/o copying to the tagline? ++pac

Re: [9fans] the `Look' command in Acme

i was always missing a 'command window' where can i see the file with my customized commands (for the task i'm working on), w/o restarting acme. see my ancient postings about an idea how to replace (mostly redundant) taglines with a command window. (yes, i can open my guide file in a window and

Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience

again just to see if it works a different time. Maybe I'll give 9atom a shot too I had to switch to 9atom some time asgo whe I bought my first sata-ii hd (but it was not on a laptop). If there is an option Configure SATA(or IDE) as AHCI in your BIOS, use it. regards, ++pac

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Vincent Zhao zhaoym1...@gmail.com wrote: I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9, can my dream come true? I have a working Thinkpad T23 with 1400x1050 video, for years. The only trouble is that it needs a small program to restore video after the lid was

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

.TS box, tab(:); l | l l l l. :b1 left:b2 middle:b3 right:cancel _ select:x::: execute::x::b3 right search:::x:b2 middle _ cut:first:second::b3 right snarf:first:second:third paste:first::second:b2 middle .TE On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Christian Neukirchen chneukirc...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [9fans] Potential BoF in San Francisco

to talk about the port of Go to Plan 9 (or BTW, what is the current status of 9Go ... I still use 60.2 cheers, ++pac

Re: [9fans] removing spaces from filenames

thank you very much , Eric! I don't use strange chars in my filenames, but others do, sigh, ++pac

[9fans] removing spaces from filenames

# remove spaces from file names /// does not work EXT=boo rm run for (old in `{9 ls *.$EXT}) { new=`{echo $old | tr -d ' ' } echo mv $old $new run } # this works, but is ugly: # remove unwanted chars from file names EXT=boo 9 ls *.$EXT foo 9 cat foo | 9 tr -c [0-9][a-z][A-Z]'.''\x0a'

Re: [9fans] GSoC application ideas page

Oddly enough, that idea does not come with the rider, And then force Peter to use the library exclusively. I somehow doubt that acme will [snip] Be sure I will never downgrade to bells and whistles that add no functionality, hewever, others would.hen rewrite every other's program UI? :-) Best,

Re: [9fans] GSoC application ideas page

It would be nice to have a widget library including buttons, drop-down menus, multiple-line text entry, radio buttons, scrollbars, etc. Oh, no!!! ++pac

Re: [9fans] refer for plan9port

I have a 'refer' port somewhere in contrib/pac, I don't know whether it runs on p9p, thgere are other's, too, give it a try ;) best, Peter. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, does anybody know about a 'refer' version for plan9port? (I know

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9 using Antony Martin's instructions

Hello, get the tarball from me: http://www2.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/go.tgz unpack it and follow the instructions in go/9install should compile fine on native plan9/386 be warned: this is version 60.2, much has changed since, good luck, ++pac

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9 using Antony Martin's

I had the same problem with ron minnich's distribution, try to dive into cmd and check the Makefile. Ron's distro is 60.2, and the changes needed to compile natively are in /n/sorces/contrib/pac/9go./tbz HTH, best, ++pac

Re: [9fans] issuing fshalt shuts down rio and gives the following

is it okay to do ^T^Tr (or, CtlAltDel) then? I guess it is, however.. ++pac

Re: [9fans] issuing fshalt shuts down rio and gives the following

I've just checked it out, just boot/login/logout: the terminal went to 'black' (== txt) mode with prompt: fsys all sync main sync: wrote blocks ## why?? (then, cursor blinks until Enter) term%

Re: [9fans] issuing fshalt shuts down rio and gives the following

why did it write anything wnen nothing was changed? just login/fshalt... fshalt runs fossilcons(4) sync to flush the cache, before halting the file system.

Re: [9fans] issuing fshalt shuts down rio and gives the following

... there've been some issues around pull considering files as locally modified while they weren't... thus, I have some outdated versions of everything ... I'll try to edit the pull's output to pull -s list, then we'll see. Although unhappy with that, I am spending much time now on linux, writing

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9 using Antony Martin's instructions

I use Ron Minnich's distribution from http://code.google.com/r/rminnich-9go/ It compiles fine on native plan9-386. I had to do some minor changes, however. Get this tarball, unpack and cpdir -m to $GOROOT It is somewhat outdated compared to Lucio's version (this is 60.2) Just do: ## Go language

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9 using Antony Martin's instructions

I forgot the link to the changed files, i shall put the tarball on contrib/pac in a few minutes ++pac On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com wrote: I use Ron Minnich's distribution from http://code.google.com/r/rminnich-9go/ It compiles fine on native plan9-386

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9 using Antony Martin's instructions

now it is on contrib/pac/9go.tbz

Re: [9fans] fun with replica and pull

No, not disgusting... I gonna do that, inspect the list, and do a pull. I think I have cfg files backupped (at least, n-1 ;-) On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: ... list of -s'es and run pull again? disgusting, no?

Re: [9fans] fun with replica and pull

I experienced the same when pulling system files after some time of not upgrading. Also, I am pretty sure that I have not modified those files listed as modified locally. I tried pull -s *, but it did not work at all. Thanks, Peter.

Re: [9fans] fun with replica and pull

yes, I expected that. thanks! Peter On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: ...

[9fans] Christmas greetings and a small e-present from ++pac (me)

Dearest Folks, I would like to wish you all a peaceful Christmas and a well-lived (unsure whether this is the correct word in English) new year. Please, feel free to download a little Christmas present from me, and yes, you can redistribute, if you wish (and if you like it). It is here:

Re: [9fans] awk reading?

I can send you some papers on awk that I have collected over years, if you are interested. Sorry, I do not remember links. Just write me at tyapca [at] gmail.com best, peter

Re: [9fans] Christmas greetings and a small e-present from ++pac (me)

no, it is a calendar, photographed and typeset by me... sorry if you don't like it, best, ++pac ps: i dont send viruses to my friends... ;-)

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

sorry, I never tried cross-compiling. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler#GCC_and_cross_compilation, and http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~milom/cross-compile.html what should be switch --target=some-target set to? your best bet is to cross-compile on Linux. set GOOS to plan9

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

$ ./make.bash /dev/null make: *** [executable.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs do i need to merge rminnich-9go with go.googlecode.com/hg/ go??? thanks, peter

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

which is the current distribution of 9go: by ron at golang.org, or at contrib/lucio? I have written some go code on linux and i want to move it under 9 thanks, regards, ++pac

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

okay, I'll try all three possibilities, however, how to extract files from lucio's go.ext? I see that it is plain text... thanks, ++pac On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:21 AM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.comwrote: I have written some go code on linux and i want to move it under 9 thanks,

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

Or, you can use http://www.uschovna.cz if it is not over 200MiB On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com wrote: Can you share it over ftp or http? thanks, happy advent, Peter.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

Hello, please, if you wish, take a look at my old thesis, we can apply for a grant to get it online, polished, hopefully in Go language golang.org running on plan9 native http://www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/model/probab-model.pdf [ps] however, I have no funding at present time, sorry, best, Peter.

Re: [9fans] how to burn iso

#!/bin/rc # burn a CD from ISO-9660 image on $home/cd.iso # version 0.03 # Thu Jul 3 06:35:32 EDT 2003 c...@gli.cas.cz rfork e t1 =`{date} kill cdfs | rc kill 9660srv | rc cdfs -d /dev/sdD0 cp $home/cd.iso /mnt/cd/wd || echo CD BURNING ERROR t2 =`{date} echo begin: $t1 echo end: $t2 # -eof-

Re: [9fans] how to burn iso

PS.: also, the example doesn't fixate the disk. Should it? Shouldn't it? (Why is this (un)needed?) I don't know. I do not use isofs anymore. I rather write a tar file to raw CD. Maybe I am crazy, but it works fine for me, at least for backup.

Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error

I have 2 yrs old 1TB SATA Caviar that most of its lifetime spent in a bin in my table... waiting just for data backup (ext2)... after 2yrs2months (and only few hours really spinning) it has 16 bad sectors, sigh ... it is WD1002FBYS ... just warning, regards, ++pac

Re: [9fans] Sad News

Rest in peace, dear Sir, ad thank you for C... ++pac

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

Sorry, I was wrong : I am running plan9/fossil on a 1TB WD Caviar disk: WD1002FBYS, however, this is not what you wanted, sorry. ++pac On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Peter A. Cejchan tyap...@gmail.com wrote: i use WD Caviar Greenhttp://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=773model

Re: [9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores)

i'd rather have a window like win that would operate on the same principle as the sam edit window. So do I. ++pac

Re: [9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores)

By the way, I patched acme so that | (the pipe symbol) can take an Is the patch on sources? ++pac

Re: [9fans] acme multi-line tags (or maybe, efficient message stores)

Thanks! The acme version in contrib/yiyus includes this and some other

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

No error, no crash. Just some files/dirs are not copied to new destination. du -s gives different number on linux vs. ext2srv/plan9 native./ Also, du -a | wc -l differ. I was not able to identify any system in which files/ dirs do not appear on ext2srv. First, i thought that dirs with 120 files,

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

i use WD Caviar Green model WD20EARS (2TB SATA II) without any problems. I installed from erik's 9atom.iso Did you toggle any jumpers on the drive? I finally gave up and returned it. No. No jumpers at all are inserted. It worked just out-of-the-box. I had first to switch to Treat SATA as

Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk

i use WD Caviar Greenhttp://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=773model *WD20EARS (2TB SATA II*) without any problems. I installed from erik's 9atom.iso it is quite silent, but I have no idea how to measure its speed :-( ++pac On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:07 AM, slash slash.9f...@gmail.com

Re: [9fans] reverse search direction in p9p acme

would it run on native plan9, too? thanks, peter, aka ++pac

[9fans] cp -au functionality wanted (needed?)

hi, folks, i am aware of that my behaviour is not m uch plan9-ish, but, i found useful the option 'update==rewrite, when newer' when merging directory trees from different sources ... tar has a -k option, what about to add -u option?? and wkat about cpdir -u?? kenji? thanks, best regards, ++pac

[9fans] cp -au functionality wanted (needed?)

hi, folks, i am aware of that my behaviour is not m uch plan9-ish, but, i found useful the option 'update==rewrite, when newer' when merging directory trees from different sources ... tar has a -k option, what about to add -u option?? and wkat about cpdir -u?? kenji? thanks, best regards, ++pac

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

i have it somewhere, if you can wait till Monday, have a look: www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/Default.htm ++pac On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:07:06 +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: Can anyone suggest how to change the background window

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

in other words, all the widgets (menus included) of an app turned into margins when mouse's /not/ over those widgets. yes!! i agree 100% last night i couldn't sleep for a while, so i tried to imagine acme as a whole screen ui, w/o any taglines, ctrl-boxes, and sliders... however, i ran into

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

you can hide all-but-one taglines with right- (rathre than middle-) click on tagline's `layout box' (the square to the left) yes, i know, and i am aware also of the two-column method that andrey suggested above; however, a wide screen (1980) would then be nice... for now, i drag all but two

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

occupied by WIMP controls. Tasteless. sorry, i had just the slider idea on my mind, sending a better img: http://www2.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/slider.pnghttp://www2.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/ubuntu_widgets.png still tasateless? PS: Gestures requires no controls. i didn't get it:

[9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

hi, folks, please, look at this: http://www2.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/ubuntu_widgets.png, and share your opinion; the main thing is the right-hand side with the slider and let's talk about this screen-pixels-saving idea the window borders are thin, but still active, mainly from outside of

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

sorry, i dont understand. if i have 20 files open in acme (yes, i'm silly), and i want to see just two of them at once, my screen is spoilt by useless taglines, saying all the time all the same: Cut Paste Snarf Look etc dont you perceive it as sucking?? ++pac No. your editor window would

Re: [9fans] Living with Plan 9

... so do I, except of testing c++ and other stuff on linux first, cross fingers, man, and welcome aboard ;-) !! ++pac

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

Hi, friend, sry 4 a bit offending response: IMHO, maybe, you should get a 0.5 GB partition try to run p9 natively, believe me, or not, it is worth to. Or, get a $20 i386 box and install p9 on it. And yes, I am not a techie, I am a paleobiologist w/some basic skills on C programming. Yes, the

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

i was overly emotional, sorry. i also overlooked that the debate is about drawterm, a non-plan9 program. doubly sorry. still, to my taste, to much effort is devoted to things outside the system... however, i am not an MBA, maybe, it is all right. wishing a fantastic day, ++pac

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

it's always all right not to be an MBA not here ;-)

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) acronym has been popular in business for decades, but its message has never been more important and, or useful for many. -- Rob Tannen yes!! BTW, I hate porting bloatware to clean, compact and efficient Plan 9. so do i, however, sometimes time (and,

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

Folks, i am very unhappy seeing this kind of discussions here (and, the wasted potential to do something more useful in my eyes, sorry, but IMHO)... it resembles me very much the times when Steve Jobbs compromised the ideas of the NeXTstep, first downgrading it to the OpenStep for Windoze users,

Re: [9fans] where to get color troff?

do you mean 'graph', or 'chart' ? ++pac

Re: [9fans] some questions--gsoc

http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/index.htm http://www.nokalva.com/asn1/booksintro.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/ToolBox/SDKDOCS/ASNLIB.HTML ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/sdkdoc/ hope this would be of some help, best regards, ++pac

[9fans] GS maintainer?

Hi, folks, GhostScript 8.53 (current plan9 ported version, if I understand it right) has a problem with rendering EPS patterns: http://www.stratigraphy.cz/8.53.png while 9.01 is OK: http://www.stratigraphy.cz/9.01.png Does anybody maintain the GS port? I am ready to contribute, if you lead

[9fans] libps added to sources

Thanks to all who helped me! Libps, a native PostScript generating library, is on contrib: /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/lib/libps.tbz It is a fork from pslib-0.4.1. It is still a big mess, some warnings about unused vars, etc, during compiling, but a simple testing program links and works

Re: [9fans] native library: linking err

sounds like a job for pic(1) - A friend of troff. Troff has a postscript backend, pic if fine, but I think it can't do areas delimited by bezier curves, and filled w/color+hash, does it? BTW, ps2pdf (it is a part of gs, isn't it?) emitted a (huge) bitmap wrapped in pdf, last time I used it

Re: [9fans] native library: linking err

st...@quintile.net wrote: graphviz package in my contrib is (I believe) documented here: graphviz is OK, i just wanted to steal some ps-generating functions from psgen.c (in dotneato/common) but i was not sure abou the meaning of some params... do you think that psgen.c would be a candidate

Re: [9fans] native library: linking err

the error message is like this: 8l box.8 pslib.8 ... ??none?? incompatible type signetures c2d44e4 (pslib.8) and affc2df4 (pslist.8) for dlst_freenode what does it mean? ++pac

Re: [9fans] native library: linking err

sorry, type is void *fn()

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