Re: [9fans] Acme question?

2007-05-22 Thread Russ Cox
>> If there is a file open (being edited) in acme. I >> want to read-in the contents of another file >> in the open file at the cursor position. How can I >> achieve that? >> >> Can a part of the open file be written out to another >> file? another way besides the edit commands is to execute cat

Re: [9fans] Concurrency and message passing with Newsqueak

2007-05-22 Thread Bakul Shah
> > http://en.literateprograms.org/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes_%28Haskell%29 > I'm not sure that's even valid Haskell though. Looks like two type > definitions for the same function, and even if you correct that I > don't think it produces what one might think it does. At least not on > GHC :-) The

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 12:27 -0700, Geoffrey Avila wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Uriel wrote: > > > You have no heart, programmers have families to feed! This will keep > > hundreds of programmers employed for years to come. > > > > uriel > > > > P.S.: And be careful, you might offend the Apple and

Re: [9fans] Concurrency and message passing with Newsqueak

2007-05-22 Thread W B Hacker
David Leimbach wrote: On 5/18/07, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob Pike wrote: (starter... snipped) http://en.literateprograms.org/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes_%28Haskell%29 I list the Haskell link as it seemed closest in concept - other implementations at top of that page. I'm not s

Re: [9fans] sd53c8xx: bios scntl3(00) stest2(00)

2007-05-22 Thread Frank Lenaerts
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:49:35AM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > i'd suspect that the interrupts aren't getting through. That's also what I first thought. Before posting my question to the list, I therefore also checked the IRQ assignments to the PCI slots and put the card in the one PCI slot th

Re: [9fans] tex on fossil

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
On 5/22/07, andrey mirtchovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 9grid% bunzip2 < tex.iso.bz2 > tex.iso 9grid% 9660srv 9660srv 6819: serving /srv/9660 9grid% mount /srv/9660 /n/dist /tmp/tex.iso 9grid% cd /n/dist # # edit tex and change clientmount to " status = '' " # you may have to copy it to a new

Re: [9fans] sd53c8xx: bios scntl3(00) stest2(00)

2007-05-22 Thread Steve Simon
It doesn't help you much but I use symbios SCSI cards in two servers. The only problems I have had have been related to a dubious drive which was sitting on the bus. This I worked around by hacking the driver, however even I when I had this problem I got further than you are. Sorry, but it should

Re: [9fans] tex on fossil

2007-05-22 Thread andrey mirtchovski
9grid% bunzip2 < tex.iso.bz2 > tex.iso 9grid% 9660srv 9660srv 6819: serving /srv/9660 9grid% mount /srv/9660 /n/dist /tmp/tex.iso 9grid% cd /n/dist # # edit tex and change clientmount to " status = '' " # you may have to copy it to a new directory and bind it again # 9grid% bind /root /n/kfs 9gr

Re: [9fans] sd53c8xx: bios scntl3(00) stest2(00)

2007-05-22 Thread Frank Lenaerts
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:16:24PM -0400, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > I am successfully using one of those cards on my > fossil server. It emits that message every time > it boots (the last time it booted the values were > 00 and 00; I can't claim they are every time). > > If I can be of use in debugg

Re: [9fans] tex on fossil

2007-05-22 Thread Federico Benavento
I didn't have a /sys/src/cmd/python/python.proto either and I don't have it now the install is finished , the magic is in the /n/dist/text file, you don't have to worry about/sys/src/cmd/tex it will be created by replica On 5/22/07, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, this does not exist

Re: [9fans] tex on fossil

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
Hmm, this does not exist: sys/src/cmd/tex/tex.proto I would expect that to cause trouble. It is not in /sys/src/cmd/tex either. Where could it be? thanks ron

Re: [9fans] tex on fossil

2007-05-22 Thread Federico Benavento
hola, I just installed the python.iso just to be sure (that I was wrong) lotte% 9fs sources lotte% fcp /n/sources/extra/python.iso.bz2 /tmp lotte% cd /tmp lotte% bunzip2 < python.iso.bz2 > python.iso lotte% 9660srv lotte% mount /srv/9660 /n/dist /tmp/python.iso lotte% cp /n/dist/python /tmp [st

[9fans] Re: Acme question?

2007-05-22 Thread Darren Bane
Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Edit r filename > will read filename at the current selection. Or you can put "

Re: [9fans] Concurrency and message passing with Newsqueak

2007-05-22 Thread David Leimbach
On 5/18/07, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob Pike wrote: > It's a google-internal site like tinyurl.com. I didn't know the talk > was going to be made public until shortly beforehand and didn't > twig fast enough that the links wouldn't work, but you'll have > no trouble finding the pape

Re: [9fans] tex on fossil

2007-05-22 Thread Federico Benavento
when I installed .is I just mounted the iso with 9660srv copied the tex|python|whaever to /tmp and edited (s/kfs/boot/) it then I just did replica/pull /tmp/file On 5/22/07, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have modified the tex file as follows: #!/bin/rc s=/n/dist serverroot=$s server

[9fans] tex on fossil

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
I have modified the tex file as follows: #!/bin/rc s=/n/dist serverroot=$s serverlog=$s/tex.log serverproto=$s/tex.proto fn servermount { status='' } fn serverupdate { status='' } fn clientmount { 9fs kfs } c=//dist/replica clientroot=/ clientproto=//sys/src/cmd/tex/tex.proto clientdb=$c/client/

Re: [9fans] Acme question?

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edit r filename will read filename at the current selection. Edit .w filename will write the current selection to filename. Paul On May 22, 2007, at 10:48 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: If there is a file open (being edited) in acme. I want to read-in t

[9fans] Acme question?

2007-05-22 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
If there is a file open (being edited) in acme. I want to read-in the contents of another file in the open file at the cursor position. How can I achieve that? Can a part of the open file be written out to another file? -ishwar

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Nothing on the plane of the surface of the earth at the south pole can head or face south. Only something orthogonal to the surface (eg the pole itself or perhaps a penguin's head) can point south. wk erik quanstrom wrote: however, one end would be *heading* north. the other would be *headin

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread Jack Johnson
On 5/22/07, Bruce Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i use XML to store midi patches and configs. as a human never edits them directly (the pre-existing library does that) it was a good choice. I actually think this is where Sun/Apple are headed, where either settings are configured via some aut

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread Bruce Ellis
to throw a spaniard in the works (never was good at mangling metaphors) i use XML to store midi patches and configs. as a human never edits them directly (the pre-existing library does that) it was a good choice. i considerered an ndb approach, and S-expressions, but i like what i got. i could h

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread Jack Johnson
On 5/22/07, Wes Kussmaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A dog straddling the south pole would have two north-facing ends. Euphemistically, anything below the waist is the south end. Therefore, the head is at the north end. All male dogs retaining both rear legs and standing could be perceived as s

Re: [9fans] Re: debugging help asked for

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
On 5/22/07, Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron says (ironically I hope): > makes me feel warm and toasty inside On a more serious note, why is the default in gcc/linux to switch off floating point divide-by-zero exceptions? Must make TLB reloads work better. Ron, are your "computa

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
however, one end would be *heading* north. the other would be *heading* south. - erik

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread Wes Kussmaul
A dog straddling the south pole would have two north-facing ends. Bill apparently meant south-facing end. erik quanstrom wrote: any such dog would need to be straddling the south pole. there can be at most one of these dogs at any one time. ;-) - erik On Mon May 21 19:29:20 EDT 2007, [EMAIL

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
i thought the criticism of s expressions was they were hard to read. - erik

Re: [9fans] debugging help asked for

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
>> that often happens when a function that returns double has no external >> declaration in scope where it's used, > > hang on: perhaps that only causes stack overflow. oh well, now you know not > to do it in any case. i've checked now: that case does give stack overflow. stack underflow will

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
> However, we're still experimenting with this and I think that just > placing a "toc" file i think just using s-expressions would do the trick, and be much easier to read.

Re: [9fans] debugging help asked for

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
>> I compiled successfully a code ported from gcc/linux that runs OK there. >> However, I'm getting stack underflow error when running it under Plan 9. > > that often happens when a function that returns double has no external > declaration in scope where it's used, hang on: perhaps that only c

Re: [9fans] debugging help asked for

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
> I compiled successfully a code ported from gcc/linux that runs OK there. > However, I'm getting stack underflow error when running it under Plan 9. that often happens when a function that returns double has no external declaration in scope where it's used, and it gets the default type of int,

Re: [9fans] an error on distribution CD

2007-05-22 Thread Antonin
Thanks. Antonin Richard Miller napsal: > > Is there an error or am I wrong? > > There was an error but it has now been fixed - try again > with a new copy of the cd from the website.

Re: [9fans] $sysname isn't set in the 'live' part of the iso

2007-05-22 Thread Sander van Dijk
On 5/21/07, Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering though what the real solution is going to be. Is this > even the correct list to discuss this, or should I file a bug report > to 9trouble? I've just submitted an alternative patch. I see it is applied already, thanks! Gr.

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
> Could someone explain this to me? Why would you do this? How could this > possibly be a net improvement? you probably want to ask about it in one of the sun or apple groups.

Re: [9fans] sd53c8xx: bios scntl3(00) stest2(00)

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Forsyth
i'd suspect that the interrupts aren't getting through. --- Begin Message --- I am successfully using one of those cards on my fossil server. It emits that message every time it boots (the last time it booted the values were 00 and 00; I can't claim they are every time). If I can be of use in deb

Re: [9fans] an error on distribution CD

2007-05-22 Thread Richard Miller
> Is there an error or am I wrong? There was an error but it has now been fixed - try again with a new copy of the cd from the website.

Re: [9fans] Re: debugging help asked for

2007-05-22 Thread Richard Miller
Ron says (ironically I hope): > makes me feel warm and toasty inside On a more serious note, why is the default in gcc/linux to switch off floating point divide-by-zero exceptions? Ron, are your "computational scientist" colleagues really more comfortable when the intermediate results of their ca

[9fans] an error on distribution CD

2007-05-22 Thread Antonin
Hi, I boot from Plan 9 CD and see... Plan 9 Startup Menu: === 1. Install Plan 9 from this CD 2. Boot Plan 9 from this CD I choose "2" to run Plan 9 live from CD. Rio doesn't start and on the screen is... init: starting /bin/rc rc: null list in