Re: [9fans] Troff macro package for patents

2007-06-07 Thread dmr
I think Dennis was talking about an earlier program, not troff. Troff does do line numbering in that style, using .nm and .nn. I should have been clearer. The program was just roff, as mentioned in the 1st edition manual. I don't have (and don't actually remember) the "separate reference"

Re: [9fans] Troff macro package for patents

2007-06-07 Thread Russ Cox
> OK. They seem to have been decrufted from the source; nothing turns > up with "grep jo" anyway. Better leave it to the archaeologists, I > suppose. I think Dennis was talking about an earlier program, not troff. Troff does do line numbering in that style, using .nm and .nn. >From the troff manua

Re: [9fans] Troff macro package for patents

2007-06-07 Thread gas
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > The patent typing time well antedated even nroff, and I don't > remember what primitive macros were used. The main thing Ossanna > did was to add two built-ins, .jo1 and .jo2; the first would produce > line > numbering as needed in the description part > (number ea

Re: [9fans] Troff macro package for patents

2007-06-07 Thread dmr
It is known that (t)roff has been used to format patent applications, but I wonder: Are there any macros available for that specific task? All patents look the same, so I figure that macros or some kind of template would be great. / G.A. The patent typing time well antedated eve

Re: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

2007-06-07 Thread Federico Benavento
hola, yes, it works, every now an then I get a private mail asking for help to set up Plan 9 on vmware :) Just in case anyone is interested, it does seem possible to run the current plan9 in VMware workstation v5. I found a VMware image at http://blog.gammal.org/2007/05/plan9-vmware-image.html

Re: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

2007-06-07 Thread Mahmoud AlGammal
Hello, Actually it was me who created that image (and 7zip was used because I don't have a wide uplink, and I wanted to upload the file quickly). As a solution for the problems you mentioned, I suggest using drawterm to connect to your VM. This should solve the two problems you describe, and you

Re: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

2007-06-07 Thread Steve Simon
> I have to use VMware on the system for work-related porpoises I hate it when dolphins get involved with machine emulation. :-) -Steve

[9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

2007-06-07 Thread Adrian Tritschler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just in case anyone is interested, it does seem possible to run the current plan9 in VMware workstation v5. I found a VMware image at http://blog.gammal.org/2007/05/plan9-vmware-image.html (compressed with a weird PC-dude-type compressor) I'm running

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread Federico Benavento
hola, I think most of your question has been already answered, but anyways On 6/7/07, Frank Lenaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, After installing Plan 9 on a standalone machine, adding a user, configuring the network, wandering around a bit, reading some manpages, ... I have a few questions

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread Kris Maglione
In addition to what gabi posted, try the FAQ (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/FAQ/index.html). - After creating a new user, the new user does not (yet) have a password. Apparently, I cannot use auth/changeuser because I don't have an auth server (the system is setup as a "terminal" wher

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Jun 7 17:50:18 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Living in Belgium, I copied /adm/timezone/CET to > /adm/timezone/local. However, time is still off by 2 hours. It seems > that the system is using GMT (normally, CET = GMT + 1; in summertime > (now), CET = GMT + 2). Is the CET file

Re: [9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread Gabriel Diaz
hello i tried to answer your questions one by one, but will choose to do it the short way: http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ take a look to this man pages too: ns(1) bind(1) timesync(8) that will explain your security and multi-user questions, the mount question and may be fixes your time probl

[9fans] making yourself at home

2007-06-07 Thread Frank Lenaerts
Hi, After installing Plan 9 on a standalone machine, adding a user, configuring the network, wandering around a bit, reading some manpages, ... I have a few questions for which I didn't find an answer. They seem stupid, so I might have missed some important documentation. If so, just point me to t

[9fans] Troff macro package for patent documents?

2007-06-07 Thread gas
It is known that (t)roff has been used to format patent applications, but I wonder: Are there any macros available for that specific task? All patents look the same, so I figure that macros or some kind of template would be great. / G.A.

Re: [9fans] regexp to match paragraphs in troff documents

2007-06-07 Thread Russ Cox
matthias: > I've tried to pipe paragraphs of a troff document to fmt but I > have problems with the correct regular expression. My first attempt > "/^\.[A-Z]++.*\n(^[^]*)*\n^\.[A-Z]++.*\n/" matches only any second > paragraph because the expression is overlapping. Does anyone have a nice > idea to

Re: [9fans] Wireless PCI Card

2007-06-07 Thread Paweł Lasek
On 6/7/07, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paweł Lasek wrote: > However this won't support non-data PCMCIA cards, so it wouldn't help. > I have yet to hear about someone making IDE interface to anything > other than storage, Google will find you some... Granted, the 'bus attached' (PCI)

Re: [9fans] Wireless PCI Card

2007-06-07 Thread W B Hacker
Paweł Lasek wrote: On 6/6/07, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rodolfo (kix) wrote: > Yes, Plan9 supported hardware. > > In the wiki "Supported hardware" page, I saw some devices (mostly > PCMCIA), but I am not sure if I can find in the shops or if is old > hardware, if is PCI, ... > There

Re: [9fans] regexp to match paragraphs in troff documents

2007-06-07 Thread rog
> I've tried to pipe paragraphs of a troff document to fmt but I > have problems with the correct regular expression. My first attempt > "/^\.[A-Z]++.*\n(^[^]*)*\n^\.[A-Z]++.*\n/" matches only any second > paragraph because the expression is overlapping. Does anyone have a nice > idea to match trof

[9fans] panic on tcp hangup in qemu

2007-06-07 Thread sqweek
Having been through the wiki instructions for setting up a CPU server in my QEMU install I felt ready to test it, didn't work straight up so first test was to make sure I've actually got qemu's host->guest port redirection working. Stumbled upon a reproducable panic along the way: term% cat /net/

[9fans] regexp to match paragraphs in troff documents

2007-06-07 Thread Matthias Teege
Moin, I've tried to pipe paragraphs of a troff document to fmt but I have problems with the correct regular expression. My first attempt "/^\.[A-Z]++.*\n(^[^]*)*\n^\.[A-Z]++.*\n/" matches only any second paragraph because the expression is overlapping. Does anyone have a nice idea to match troff p

Re: [9fans] how to use 9loaddebug

2007-06-07 Thread Gabriel Diaz
hello the problem was what russ said, now i have it working again, thanks gabi On 6/7/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: did the original 9load hang witout printing anything? "PBS2..." is printed by pbslba. you might not be successfully loading/jumping to 9load at all. one thing

Re: [9fans] how to use 9loaddebug

2007-06-07 Thread erik quanstrom
did the original 9load hang witout printing anything? "PBS2..." is printed by pbslba. you might not be successfully loading/jumping to 9load at all. one thing you can do is add i8042a20(); memset(m, 0, sizeof(Mach)); + consinit("0", 0); + print("9load started\n"); rig

Re: [9fans] Wireless PCI Card

2007-06-07 Thread Paweł Lasek
On 6/6/07, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rodolfo (kix) wrote: > Yes, Plan9 supported hardware. > > In the wiki "Supported hardware" page, I saw some devices (mostly > PCMCIA), but I am not sure if I can find in the shops or if is old > hardware, if is PCI, ... > There are also IDE cable

Re: [9fans] how to use 9loaddebug

2007-06-07 Thread Gabriel Diaz
hello oh, thank you, should i submit a patch to 9load man page with this information? gabi On 6/7/07, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is that the way 9loaddebug should be used or i missed something? 9loaddebug is a copy of 9load that is linked like a regular plan 9 executable, so that

Re: [9fans] how to use 9loaddebug

2007-06-07 Thread Russ Cox
> is that the way 9loaddebug should be used or i missed something? 9loaddebug is a copy of 9load that is linked like a regular plan 9 executable, so that it can be used with acid (as shown by the commands that mk 9loaddebug prints). a typical use is when 9load crashes at PC 0x8001023a you run

[9fans] how to use 9loaddebug

2007-06-07 Thread Gabriel Diaz
hello i am trying to use 9loaddebug to see if it can help to discover why when i put the bios with sata in enhaced mode 9load hangs. I used disk/format as in prep(8), but it just prints PBS2... and hangs (and now hangs with all possible ide configurations in bios, so i can't boot anymore). is t