Re: [9fans] Acme tag scrolling/expansion

2005-10-07 Thread Paul Lalonde
And one more associated question: with longer tags, does it make sense to augment the dump format to save/restore tags with carriage returns? Paul On 7-Oct-05, at 8:34 PM, Paul Lalonde wrote: I have a working hack to acme that now lets me use the scroll wheel to expand the tag to multiple

[9fans] Acme tag scrolling/expansion

2005-10-07 Thread Paul Lalonde
I have a working hack to acme that now lets me use the scroll wheel to expand the tag to multiple lines and collapse it again. It seems to have no nasty interactions with the feature set I use. Moving a window into a slot shorter than the tag shortens the tag to fit. One line of the body

Re: [9fans] Acme Editing and Permissions

2005-10-07 Thread yard-ape
Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a shell script called Put! that > uses sudo to write the current buffer out. ... > Russ Thanks alot, that points me in the right direction. -Derek

Re: [9fans] webscript

2005-10-07 Thread Jack Johnson
On 10/7/05, Dimitry Golubovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russ Cox wrote: > > I would like to be able to write scripts like this: > > > > load "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking"; > > find form > > enter "792544024753" > > submit Looks a whole lot like AppleScript: using ter

Re: [9fans] webscript

2005-10-07 Thread erik quanstrom
why not write httpfs analogous to olefs? diverting from the topic at hand, awk would be very interesting if extended so that records could be defined by structured regular expressions other than '^.*\n'. Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes | | > You'd need a parser to map a document's

Re: [9fans] cs lookup feature

2005-10-07 Thread lucio
> now if only i could figure out how to do this in unix. b CNAME b-long-name.some.other.domain.com. where "b" is in your local domain zone. Not elegant, not portable, but effective. Another, even more evil option, is $HOSTALIASES and the file it points to. Be afraid, be very af

Re: [9fans] webscript

2005-10-07 Thread lucio
> Seems like I recall seeing an Expect derrivative that worked with > websites - can't seem to google it now. Not sure it worked as easily > as you are describing, but it might be a step in the right direction. I'm in the wrong academic league, but the nearest I can envisage doing something along

Re: [9fans] webscript

2005-10-07 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> You'd need a parser to map a document's structure > into an s-expr and then you can do all the intresting stuff > in this awk-for-s-expr language. sexpr and scheme are made for each other. irc, presotto was contemplating a solution a couple of years ago. we had to use an old version of expat x

[9fans] cs lookup feature

2005-10-07 Thread Russ Cox
now on sources. if you add entries like sys=b dom=b-long-name.some.other.domain.com (without an ip= attribute) then cs will fill in the ip attribute using dns. this is useful if you can't arrange to be running dns out of your ndb files but want to set up local aliases. now if only i could figu

Re: [9fans] webscript

2005-10-07 Thread Bakul Shah
> I would like to be able to write scripts like this: > > load "http://apc-reset/outlets.htm"; > find "yoshimi" > nearest option, set "Immediate Reboot" > submit > > or like this: > > load "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking"; > find form > enter "79254402475

Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown

2005-10-07 Thread Russ Cox
> A couple times I have wondered if it would make sense to > chmod the .../data files once services are running... > or maybe they should start off non-writable and startups > should embody a pattern like this? > > chmod 664 /dev/sdC0/fossil > fossil -f /dev/sdC0/fossil > chmod 444 /dev/sdC0/fos

Re: [9fans] stubbing

2005-10-07 Thread Wes Kussmaul
This is exactly the problem with blacklisting: you might reject some bad mail, but you lose a lot of good mail too. It's like chewing off your arm just because your pinky is broken. Russ ID-PKI

Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown

2005-10-07 Thread Dave Eckhardt
> i was going to warn at the time against typing the wrong name in > sdXX but realised that might have an effect similar to saying > ``don't think of an elephant' A couple times I have wondered if it would make sense to chmod the .../data files once services are running... or maybe they should sta

Re: [9fans] stubbing

2005-10-07 Thread Russ Cox
> re this, my entire domain (lanl.gov) is blacklisted so that I can not > post to v9fs-developers. > > It may be justified, however, since we have many naive users with > Windows boxes who may, for all I know, by zombies. This is exactly the problem with blacklisting: you might reject some bad mai

Re: [9fans] stubbing

2005-10-07 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Charles Forsyth wrote: the quality of the blacklists is poor re this, my entire domain (lanl.gov) is blacklisted so that I can not post to v9fs-developers. It may be justified, however, since we have many naive users with Windows boxes who may, for all I know, by zombies. ron

Re: [9fans] stubbing

2005-10-07 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Dave Lukes wrote: I'm sure we'd all like to hear of a spam-protection system which isn't a PITA to administer and which actually delivers the message before the recipient dies of old age: greylisting is too slow for our business. Sadly, in reality, I suspect that what we have here (spamassassi

Re: [9fans] stubbing

2005-10-07 Thread Charles Forsyth
the quality of the blacklists is poor and many entries are completely unrelated to spam, based on a silly assumption; and it's usually impossible to correct incorrect data (because the rbl maintainers are morons, sorry: officious morons). (all right, to be fair, perhaps most are wonderful and of co

Re: [9fans] stubbing

2005-10-07 Thread Dave Lukes
> i had similar luck with greylisting, validatesender, etc and SPF. We can't greylist, we'll be validating sender in about a month and SPF will get done ASA I convince myself I know what it "means". > now, if i could just do something about the rbl morons, i'd be happy, DaveL puts his finger in

Re: [9fans] webscript

2005-10-07 Thread Dimitry Golubovsky
Russ Cox wrote: I would like to be able to write scripts like this: load "http://apc-reset/outlets.htm"; find "yoshimi" nearest option, set "Immediate Reboot" submit or like this: load "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking"; find form enter "792

Re: [9fans] webscript

2005-10-07 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Seems like I recall seeing an Expect derrivative that worked with websites - can't seem to google it now. Not sure it worked as easily as you are describing, but it might be a step in the right direction. -eric On 10/7/05, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to be able to

Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown

2005-10-07 Thread Charles Forsyth
> Way back on September 22, 2005 Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > [how to set rwm and dma] i was going to warn at the time against typing the wrong name in sdXX but realised that might have an effect similar to saying ``don't think of an elephant''.

[9fans] webscript

2005-10-07 Thread Russ Cox
I would like to be able to write scripts like this: load "http://apc-reset/outlets.htm"; find "yoshimi" nearest option, set "Immediate Reboot" submit or like this: load "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking"; find form enter "792544024753"