Re: [9fans] Floppy Image

2007-07-25 Thread Ben Knuth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1997 was a typo. It's from like 94 or earlier. It's an IBM thinkpad 790??. Thanks for your help. On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:32:07 + Jack Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > My Linux s

Re: [9fans] Arithmetic on Plan 9

2007-07-25 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:25:28AM -0600, andrey mirtchovski wrote: >[...] > in my particular case the code I was porting defined NaN as a constant > and threw an exception whenever it ran. one particular quirk that i > observed was that an exception was thrown regardless of whether I > defined a

[9fans] lguest

2007-07-25 Thread ron minnich
I am going to drop my 2.6.21 tree, my plan 9 tree for lguest, and some "run it" info on sources today or tomorrow. I could use some help on a a weird tcp problem once I get verification that somebody else has "made it go". It looks like forward porting the plan 9 to 2.6.32 when released won't be

Re: [9fans] Floppy Image

2007-07-25 Thread Jack Johnson
On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My Linux system tells me the .gz'd floppy image is corrupt. I have > an IBM from circa 1997 I would like to test run Plan 9 on. Any help > would be appreciated! I would think that a computer from 1997 would be able to boot from a CD-RO

Re: [9fans] Floppy Image

2007-07-25 Thread raphael rsc
i also tried booting a plan9 floppy on a old machine and all floppies complained about no valid dos fs found. even if it mounts on a freebsd and netbsd os with all the files on. Raphael On 7/25/07, Ben Knuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My Linux syste

Re: [9fans] Floppy Image

2007-07-25 Thread john
> > My Linux system tells me the .gz'd floppy image is corrupt. I have > an IBM from circa 1997 I would like to test run Plan 9 on. Any help > would be appreciated! I would think that a computer from 1997 would be able to boot from a CD-ROM... can't it? John

Re: [9fans] Arithmetic on Plan 9

2007-07-25 Thread tlaronde
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:25:28AM -0600, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > [good stuff] > > hope that helps. Yes, definitively. Thank you very much! It's almost clear that I need for KerGIS to orthogonalize things, so that in the libgis are indeed system dependant (POSIX or Plan 9) facilities and onl

[9fans] Floppy Image

2007-07-25 Thread Ben Knuth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My Linux system tells me the .gz'd floppy image is corrupt. I have an IBM from circa 1997 I would like to test run Plan 9 on. Any help would be appreciated! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com

Re: [9fans] Arithmetic on Plan 9

2007-07-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
i may not be qualified to answer all those questions for you, but i'll try my best. i was dealing with FP exceptions last week and consequently may have some of the answers: 1) Is there a Plan 9 policy concerning the "notes" (exceptions) on arithmetic operations, both integer and float? i don'

[9fans] Re: Arithmetic on Plan 9

2007-07-25 Thread tlaronde
[I forgot the references]: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:51:55PM +0200, tlaronde wrote: > involves, obviously the machine---MMIX[1] for example has distinct MMIX is the mythical RISC machine described by Donald E. Knuth in: 1 The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Fascicle 1: MMIX, A RISC Compu

[9fans] Arithmetic on Plan 9

2007-07-25 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I'm working on KerGIS, a BSD licenced revival of CERL GRASS, in order to make it compile and run on Plan 9 too---at the moment, it compiles and runs on any POSIX Unix flavour. Even if a huge amount of work has already been done for cleaning, reorganizing and extending the original sources,

Re: [9fans] Re: RPC-esque system calls?

2007-07-25 Thread C H Forsyth
i assumed he meant that he hadn't got a warm reception here so it was obviously the wrong group. --- Begin Message --- On 7/24/07, Francesco Frigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I posted it to the wrong newsgroup. Just curious: Where did you intend to post this? I'd like to follow how the convers

Re: [9fans] Re: RPC-esque system calls?

2007-07-25 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 7/24/07, Francesco Frigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I posted it to the wrong newsgroup. Just curious: Where did you intend to post this? I'd like to follow how the conversation goes outside 9fans. --Joel

Re: [9fans] 9fans.net down?

2007-07-25 Thread erik quanstrom
no need to be sorry. we're in the same boat. my dsl in washington is still dead. new dsl in georgia has the voice pair connected (which i didn't want) but bell has forgotten to connect the dsl pair to the dslam. fun. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9fans.net down?

2007-07-25 Thread Russ Cox
> i haven't been able to connect to 9fans.net for the past several days. sorry, the dsl modem died. back now. russ

Re: [9fans] page and .ps bitmaps

2007-07-25 Thread Russ Cox
you can restart page with page -p 150 (or some other percentage) and it will make the ps bigger or smaller using gs and thus look better. i managed to make this work in a running page once but i have misplaced the code at the moment. russ

Re: [9fans] page and .ps bitmaps

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
The resizer in page(1) is fairly crude - it trades quality for speed. On windows and the like the resizing is often done in hardware (in the graphics card), unfortunaletly plan9 makes no use of such features so it has to do a pure software implementation - hence the tradeoff. -Steve

[9fans] page and .ps bitmaps

2007-07-25 Thread cej
hi all, when using 'page' to look at postscript files that include bitmaps, they appear rough unless they are scaled 1:1 with original bitmap included within ps -- it may, however, be a problem of gs not resampling bitmaps properly: i am ,unfortunately, not skilled enough to find out in sources