[9fans] upas/fs to imap: removed messages sometimes regenerate

2008-03-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm seeing some odd (wrong) behavior with Plan 9's upas/fs and was wondering of others have seen it, before I start digging further. I use upas/fs to talk to a local mailbox and two IMAP servers. The local store and one of the IMAP servers work reliably correctly. On the other IMAP server, upas/fs

Re: [9fans] ctags on plan 9 with acme-friendly tags

2008-02-18 Thread Anthony Sorace
Okay, /n/sources/contrib/anothy/rc/bin/looktag is useful, i think. It'll take a list of tags as arguments, look for them in a tags file (-f file, or tags in the local dir by default), and plumbs the results correctly. It's intended so that if you put it in the tag of an acme window, 1-click at an i

Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions

2008-02-17 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 2/17/08, Eris Discordia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do Plan 9 compilers output COFF object files? not typically, but some of the linkers can be instructed to. see the -Hn argument in 2l(1). the list of what the linkers can generate isn't documented, but look for HEADTYPE in /sys/src/cmd/[1257

Re: [9fans] ctags on plan 9 with acme-friendly tags

2008-02-17 Thread Anthony Sorace
someone on irc pointed out nemo's tools when i was most of the way through getting ctags to work. they do look interesting, the tagfs thing particularly. i continued with ctags because it's cross-platform (i do much of my programming with acme on OS X) and has a good range of languages (nemo's man

[9fans] ctags on plan 9 with acme-friendly tags

2008-02-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
i occasionally have to deal with moderate to large bodies of code written by others and of questionable structural integrity. most often this is C code, but sometimes its other things. there are a few tools i've seen which help on the learning curve; ctags is one of the more significant one. i've

Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash

2008-02-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Feb 9, 2008 5:11 AM, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it just a matter of chsh (after changing /etc/shells)? It is, or at least can be. If you've got the tools installed at any non-standard location, you have to make sure $PLAN9 is set somewhere before your shell is started (as

Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio

2008-02-08 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Feb 8, 2008 6:58 AM, Federico G. Benavento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why would you want that, get use to the system, this is a new world > don't go to Laos and expect everyone speak english. i read that as "don't go to the Labs and expect everyone speak english". i guess that could well be

Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio

2008-02-08 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Feb 8, 2008 4:47 AM, Eris Discordia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had similar questions about ways to streamline my Plan 9 experience > since like... a week ago (that is when I began using it). For starters, I'd suggest that if you've been using it for a week, you've not been using it lo

Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

2008-02-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Feb 2, 2008 2:22 PM, Juan M. Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what are the facts to back up so many posts regarding autotools badness? I mostly manage to avoid working on things where I've had to use them as a producer, so I don't have the whole toolchain lying around. I'm more than happ

[9fans] libcontrol focus question

2007-11-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
In my first experiment with control(2), I'm trying to get fgui to give the first entry box focus when the window is created (since in better than 90% of my cases, all that's needed is a password). I've tried a few methods, all of which basically boil down to: chanprint(cs->ctl, "%s focus 1

[9fans] IWP9 travel plans

2007-11-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
in light of the questions here and some comments on IRC, i've created a page on the wiki for iwp9 travel plans: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/IWP9_2007_travel_plans/index.html i encourage folks interested in coordinating social activities and/or crash pads to post their info there. anthon

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 11/27/07, Gorka Guardiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really good from you to offer to sysadmin for the next year :-)!!. presumably intended as a joke, but if whoever organizes next year's IWP9 would like help on that front, i'm happy to. i don't think hosting the cite on my end of a residenti

[9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
I saw that the program draft has been posted (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/iwp9/programme.pdf) - neat! Looks like an interesting lineup. Can someone talk briefly about what the Work-in-Progress session at the end is about? That is, is this content provided by the organizers, or is it more free-form t

Re: [9fans] SATA controller found by kernel but not 9load

2007-11-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
okay. between the holiday and the fact that this is the first cpu server i've had to set up without benefit of a serial console, this took much longer to confirm than expected, but it does seem to have worked. i've now got my cpu server booting off my local fossil on sdE0. i also tested the termina

Re: [9fans] SATA controller found by kernel but not 9load

2007-11-21 Thread Anthony Sorace
well, the failure mode is now quite different. i got a panic which i assumed meant the kernel had given up, but as i was typing this i got a timeout message from ipconfig. something's still running, clearly. unfortunately, most of the content scrolled off the top when i got a dumpstack from whateve

Re: [9fans] SATA controller found by kernel but not 9load

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
I can mount my fossil when booted from the cdrom. The output of fossil/conf /dev/sdE0/fossil is as follows: fsys main config /dev/sdE0/fossil fsys main open -AWVP fsys other config /dev/sdE0/other fsys other open -AWVP srv -p fscons srv fossil Running fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdE0/fossil while boote

Re: [9fans] SATA controller found by kernel but not 9load

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm not sure if 9loadsb600 is far enough along for bug reports to be useful, but here you go. It gets significantly further than it had been. Far enough that it looks as though 9load's work might be done: it finds my plan9.ini and loads the kernel indicated (both on a 9fat partition on sdE0). Now

Re: [9fans] 8c "out of fixed registers"

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
Not conform. Adapt. Perhaps accommodate.

Re: [9fans] SATA controller found by kernel but not 9load

2007-11-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
Geoff asked about *noahciload in my plan9.ini; no, it is not set. None of the *no variables are. Gorka asked about my bios: yes, my bios knows about it. I've not got any of the legacy compatibility stuff turned on, as my initial experiments showed it made them not detected by the kernel, either (a

[9fans] SATA controller found by kernel but not 9load

2007-11-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm trying to install a new system and I've run into a problem: the SATA controller is recognized fine by the kernel, but not by 9load. The kernel tells me: #S/sdE: ahci: port 0xe000: hba sss 0; ncs 31; coal 1; mports 3; led 1; clo 1; ems 0 #S/sdE: sb600: sata-II with 4 ports but 9load has no

Re: [9fans] Current status of amd64 port?

2007-11-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Nov 15, 2007, at 18:39, erik quanstrom wrote: it's kind of silly to run 64-bit linux on a machine with <= 4GB of memory. unless, as you said, you need the registers (eh) or the direct vlong (nice for some things). my new cpu server has 4GB today. i was shocked at how cheap it was. if

[9fans] Venti config for booting from fs(3)

2007-11-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'd like to set up my spiffy new cpu server to boot from a venti using at least mirrored arenas via fs(3). A few questions on this: • I'm mirroring the arenas to insure against drive failure. Does it make sense to also interleave the indexes? Both of them? • I've got three disks. The venti ar

[9fans] Current status of amd64 port?

2007-11-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
What's the current status of the AMD64 port (compiler and kernel)? I've just got a new server which would make a positively lovely target for it. Alternately, who's the contact person? Anthony

Re: [9fans] Trouble with email

2007-11-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 11/14/07, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your solution worked for me! Thanks! // Now faces loads every email message... That's just faces' -i flag. Leave it off if you don't want that. // right-clicking doesn't do anything (even with plumber running) // and "Mail mail.mac.com"

[9fans] watchapc?

2007-11-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
/sys/src/cmd/cwfs/README contains the statement: The APC UPS sut-down code has been moved into a separate command, watchapc. I can't find any trace of it actually existing. Can it be made available, please?

Re: [9fans] Styx/9p implementations in JavaME

2007-11-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
ah, good. it's by the guy who'd put me under the impression that it was possible. ;-)

Re: [9fans] Trouble with email

2007-11-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
I have a bin/rc/riostart which is invoked when I (surprise!) start rio. It contains the following lines (with the names changed) (upas/fs is already run, without arguments, from my profile): echo -n 'open /imap/server1/anthony server1' > /mail/fs/ctl echo -n 'open /imap/server2/anth

Re: [9fans] Styx/9p implementations in JavaME

2007-11-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 11/13/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // I thought J2ME was limited to http connectivity... I don't *think* that's right. I'm very, very far from a Java expert, but my impression from more knowledgeable people is that JavaME allows direct socket communication, but the implementati

[9fans] Styx/9p implementations in JavaME

2007-11-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm beginning a project that involves writing some Styx servers in Java, particularly in a JavaME (formerly known as J2ME) environment. Uriel's nice page on 9p implementations lists two Java implementations, but neither's been updated in a good while, one is client-only, and neither lists which fla

Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question

2007-11-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 11/10/07, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // ...I'm hoping the days of small graphics cards will be behind us // long before I can get around to coding such a driver... The cheapest ATI card I could find on their website has 128MB of DDR. The lowest of NVidia's modern line comes with 2

[9fans] Previous fossil scores

2007-11-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
fossil/last will give me the score of the last dump to venti, which i can then use to initialize a new file system. is there a way to get the dump before that (or any arbitrary previous dump)?

Re: [9fans] cpu(1) design...

2007-11-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
ah, i see. yes, i've been caught by that as well. the problem is i've also been caught doing 'cpu system', thinking of it as a parallel to ssh or telnet. i probably assume -c more often than -h, but that does seem less consistent with other "remote access" commands.

Re: [9fans] cpu(1) design...

2007-11-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 11/9/07, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // was there ever any thought that cpu could/should put you // onto the least loaded machine in your authdom... That seems more a server function than a client function to me; thus, cpu(1) would be the wrong place to do it. I'd rather the server

Re: [9fans] Channels and threads

2007-11-07 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 11/7/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // wiring data to processors would make more sense. is what's meant here "wiring (data+proc) to processors would make more sense"?

Re: [9fans] Applying patches to local machine

2007-11-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
all the /bin/patch/* files are just shell scripts, so it's easy to see what's going on. which stage gives you permission errors? in a default setup, you'll have to be in group sys, as that's who owns all the sources. if you can't be in sys for whatever reason, you'll have a somewhat more manual pr

Re: [9fans] Applying patches to local machine

2007-11-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
I think he's asking whether there's any way to apply not yet integrated/approved patches to his local source. It looks like running patch/apply works for everyone, modifying whatever the local root is (rather than explicitly working on /n/sources), which is nice. It does require you having write p

Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc

2007-11-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 11/1/07, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /sys/doc doesn't talk much about the system... Erm, what? That's pretty much all it talks about. From your list of topics, 9.ms gives a nice view of "basics", acid.ms gives a nice tour of debugging (acidpaper.ms is a good read, too, but is

Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc

2007-11-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 11/1/07, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // I'm not a big fan of having to type "man -t 2 xxx | page" about 100 times // a day to figure out something... oh, who would be? you want 'man -P 2 xxx' instead. ;-) // Anyone like this idea? I certainly like the idea of a good tutorial-s

Re: [9fans] Authenticated mounts from non-plan9 systems

2007-10-30 Thread Anthony Sorace
How are you exporting things from you Plan 9 system? It doesn't sound to me like your server is expecting authentication, as if you're running exportfs without -a.

Re: [9fans] lp server

2007-10-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
mostly, just edit /sys/lib/lp/devices and start the network listener. for the former, the "pcclone" entry should be pretty close to what you want, although if it's a dot-matrix printer, you almost certainly will want some other device class for your dot-matrix printer (unless ghostscript knows how

Re: [9fans] wavelan card

2007-10-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
for moving between 802.11 nets without rebooting (where the plan9.ini config is useful), also note this line from plan9.ini(8): // These options may be set after boot by writing to the //device's ctl file using a space as the separator between //option and value, e.g. // echo 'key2 1d8f65c9a5

Re: [9fans] Audio and other questions

2007-10-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
okay, well, i also needed to change these definitions: c=/n/boot/dist/replica clientroot=/n/boot clientproto=/n/boot/sys/src/cmd/perl/perl.proto and that seems to work (except for two missing files which seem to genuinely not be on the cd image). joy. except now i have perl

Re: [9fans] Audio and other questions

2007-10-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
yes, sending raw PCM over a cable modem is likely to be unenjoyable, or at least spottily so. do the decoding as close to your audio device as you're able. with drawterm, that pretty much means your cpu server's got to be nearby, yes. the perl install consists of two steps: perl.setup and replica/

[9fans] Fossil thinks my free space is a wee bit more than it is

2007-10-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
While untarring a big-ish file to a small-ish hard drive, I was running df on my fossil console to see if I was going to run out of space. The output from these successive runs is... not correct: prompt: fsys main df main: 1,644,601,344 used + 2,588,672 free = 1,647,190,016 (99% used) pro

Re: [9fans] More venti sync woes.

2007-09-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
agreed. 'ps -a | grep venti' shows the followg after about 15 minutes: glenda 1983:04 3:44 104508K Rendez venti [main] glenda 1990:00 0:00 104508K Rendez venti glenda 2000:00 0:00 104508K Sleepventi glenda 2010:00 0:00 104

Re: [9fans] More venti sync woes.

2007-09-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
it's almost certainly venti sitting there; i don't think fossil is even running yet. the last two lines on my screen are: root is from (tcp, local)[local!#S/sdC0/fossil]: time... venti...2007/0926 17:57:23 venti: conf...httpd tcp!127.1!8000...init...sync... that sequence matches my read of the ve

[9fans] Another addons.html update: s/gccbin/gnubin/

2007-09-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
Thanks to whoever made the graphviz changes (although the s;s;z; is still needed). I also noted that the package for gcc-related binaries is wrong: it points to gccbin.tgz when in fact the file is gnubin.tgz. All the other links to sources seem to be okay.

[9fans] Graphviz info on addons page outdated

2007-09-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/addons.html has incorrect (presumably outdated) info on the Graphviz port. The graphviz folks themselves seem to no longer have the 1.10 source distribution available for whatever reason. No loss, though: the supposed patch link has been replaced. It now redirects t

Re: [9fans] More venti sync woes.

2007-09-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 9/26/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // since venti is a user-level process, i would think that rather than // solving the problem, disabling a cpu makes it less likely. agree. also certainly not the problem in any of the cases where I've encountered this, as it's all been on on

[9fans] More venti sync woes.

2007-09-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
I've had a cpu server running off a non-venti-backed fossil for a few weeks now. the same machine has also been running venti (but the fossil wasn't talking to it, intentionally). I'd confirmed the venti was working by doing direct dumps and mounting the results from vacfs. All was well. Yesterday

Re: [9fans] cwfs(4) failing: phase error after recover or suicide

2007-09-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
perfect. removing the f from the config did the trick exactly. i've got my fs back. i'd still like to understand more why the bitmap is wrong on the same disks, but that's for another day now. very much thanks. i agree having a file server "just run" is worth quite a bit; the problem is the hardwa

Re: [9fans] cwfs(4) failing: phase error after recover or suicide

2007-09-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 9/20/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // i would guess that your new fworm is not exactly the same (calculated) // size as your old worm. the fworm, not the cache? hrm, interesting. it's exactly the same disks, but i suppose that could be it. i'll take a look at that and how the bi

Re: [9fans] cwfs(4) failing: phase error after recover or suicide after normal startup

2007-09-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
that was the first thing i checked. in acid, print(cwio:h) showed seemingly useful non-0 numbers. but apparently i wasn't paying very close attention: h in cwio is a Cache*, not a Cache, so i needed print(*cwio:h). yup, msize is zero. geoff's been providing suggestions and thinks that the recover

[9fans] cwfs(4) failing: phase error after recover or suicide after normal startup

2007-09-18 Thread Anthony Sorace
Having played around with cwfs for a week or so now, I'm trying to use it to migrate my old kenfs. The relevant config line is 'filsys main cw4f[w<0-3>]'; w4 no longer works. I've gotten w0-3 hooked up to my cpu server and have created a devmap mapping w4 to a 30GB disk file (the original w4 disk w

Re: [9fans] terminal + router + cable internet

2007-09-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
i agree my experience isn't relevant to john's problem. his ping times are about 1/5 or less of what mine were. more significantly, the fact that his significant delay happens before authentication points towards something in the auth process (factotum+secstore). in general, though: networks have

Re: [9fans] terminal + router + cable internet

2007-09-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
getting your root fs over a wide-area network can be quite painful; you're not moving a ton of data, but the process is very latency-sensitive. i've not done it in a few years, but boot times of 5-10 minutes were not unusual. cfs(4) cut it to about a quarter that. still, what i ended up doing was

[9fans] confusion over cwfs devices?

2007-09-05 Thread Anthony Sorace
i'm trying to get familiar with cwfs, and i'm having issues. i'm trying to use plain files for playing around, which cwfs(4) indicates should be fine. i've got a directory /tmp/cwfs with a bunch of files in it: confdisk0, fakedisk[0-3], and devmap. devmap has lines like: w0 /tmp/cwfs/fakedi

Re: [9fans] Re: secstore and PAKserver

2007-08-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
// ...I thought the patent systems were still strictly national. the patent systems are still national (with some exceptions like the complex mess in the EU), but there's nothing to prevent LU (or anyone else) filing in multiple jurisdictions. one can submit a single filing under the Patent Cooper

Re: [9fans] handling tabs in text frames

2007-08-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 8/26/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i agree tab handling is imperfect and often frustrating >> (especially when working with people who code in >> variable-width fonts, which, personally, still seems a bit >> odd to me) [...] > > why? no good reason. intellectually, i entirel

Re: [9fans] handling tabs in text frames

2007-08-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 8/26/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > p.s. tabs are 8 spaces. ;-) tabs are tabs. spaces are spaces. seriously: i'm less concerned about what actual visual representation is used (i like 4-space equivalent, 8 wouldn't make me upset, and leaving it user-specified is lovely), but

Re: [9fans] Bay Area Plan 9 Users Group Meeting (August '07)

2007-08-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
Thanks for the pictures, Dharani. Can you or someone put names to the faces?

Re: [9fans] 9ee

2007-08-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
The compiler+library trick is very nice. The run-time portion sounds very similar to rsc's 9pm; can you summarize the differences? Primarily i'm interested in how much of a "mental context switch" you've got between the Plan 9 and Windows worlds.

Re: [9fans] Re: X11 setup problem

2007-06-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
/n/kfs is the conventional mount point for the previous local-disk-backed file system on terminals and cpu servers; it's likely just an issue of point it at wherever your file system is *really* mounted, instead (or, just mount it on /n/kfs and skip the changes). however, and this is important, i

Re: [9fans] About 9P ...

2007-06-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
perhaps my sense of humor's tweaked, but i understood russ' comment to be sarcastic, since the added complexity of making fid lookup slightly faster on both ends seems hard to justify given how vastly outweighed fid lookup is bound to be by the encryption-related operations.

Re: [9fans] Mac p9p snarf buffer

2007-05-03 Thread Anthony Sorace
are you running a current p9p? it didn't used to be, but has been for quite some time. there's a program called 'snarfer' that used to be needed, but it's not running on my system. are you using a window manager other than quartz-wm? if so, you'll need to run: 'quartz-wm --only-proxy &' before st

Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc

2007-05-03 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 5/3/07, Federico Benavento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "You are not using a supported compiler. We do not have the time to make sure everything works with compilers other than the ones we use. Use either the same compiler as we do, or use --disable-gcc-check but DO *NOT* REPORT BUGS unless yo

Re: [9fans] THX hell

2007-05-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
you might talk to the Opera people. in addition to having a PC-type browser that runs on multiple platforms, they have slimmed-down versions that run on various embedded platforms. they've got a smallish version that runs on the Nokia N800 (a linux-based handheld device) which has decent performan

Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc

2007-05-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 5/1/07, Jon Snader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anyone (other than a few refugees from Pascal) who believes that C suffers from its lack of a formal boolean type? i think that's the wrong question. i know plenty of people who believe C suffers from its lack of a formal boolean type,

Re: [9fans] pipefs or cmdfs

2007-04-21 Thread Anthony Sorace
execnet(4) seems close to what you want, but not quite right - it provides arbitrary command access, rather than a single command (which could make sharing it awkward). i think closer to what you want is' geoff's cmdfs (in his contrib dir). it's only advertised to run on third edition, but if it

Re: [9fans] Recovering a venti from disk failure

2007-04-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
Geoff wrote: // (or is it on the drive with the damaged fossil and you // don't trust the drive?). exactly. i'm also replacing it with something about five times the size at the same cost. amazing what a few years will do. once the transition is complete, i'll most of the old disk as an "other".

[9fans] Recovering a venti from disk failure

2007-04-18 Thread Anthony Sorace
I had a disk fail a few days ago, after a power outage here. Various spots in the fossil partition generate IO errors. The Venti arenas seem intact. I've bought a new (and larger) drive, and have done a basic Plan 9 install onto that, and moved the old disk from sdC0 to sdD0. I'd like to recover t

Re: [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat

2007-04-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
//To start with, Plan 9 can handle as many things in the //root as you like. It is not constrained by the size //of an rk05 or the time to fsck the root partition. Of course; as I said, it's largely an aesthetic decision. But I do believe it has an impact on *people* reading /, rather than progr

Re: [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat

2007-04-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm having trouble understanding the motivation behind /cfg, as compared to /sys/lib/sysconfig. The later seems much more general (although i'm not clear on the pxe case specifically), as well as having the aesthetic benefit of not needlessly cluttering root. Am I missing something?

Re: [9fans] CA Bay Area Plan9 users group

2007-04-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
i'm not normally out there, but visit SF with relative frequency (one coming up the first week in may). i'm interested in getting together with other 9fans.

Re: [9fans] qemu, kvm, xen

2007-04-06 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 4/6/07, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: THX will remain xen-based for now. That's good, because otherwise you'd have to change the acronym, and THK doesn't have nearly as interesting references (no offense to any members of the Turkish Aeronautical Association intended).

Re: [9fans] Looking to buy Plan 9 full kit from 1995

2007-03-25 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 3/25/07, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are very few reasons why one would want this kit instead of downloading a current CD from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 and buying printed manuals from Vita Nuova. Note that VN's kit also comes with the CD; should be everything you need,

Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?

2007-03-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 3/13/07, C H Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: anyway, as to the archaic nature of shells. >i also find it bizarre that you can call rc "old cruft"... i supposed that was a reference to the fact that the style of these shells hasn't changed all that much since 1977. interestingly,

Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?

2007-03-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 3/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: somebody (anothy?) made a comment ages ago about how it was "suprisingly slow". that was me. don't misunderstand: i quite like the shell, and that wasn't intended to imply that it's not suitable for a great number of things (including, of

Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?

2007-03-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
what's being proposed here for addition to rc is totally different from the mash/inferno-sh case. in the inferno case, we had two different authors with some substantial differences in ideas for constructing shells, in terms of syntax, semantics, and features. you're correct that trying to add ro

Re: [9fans] autoroff

2007-03-08 Thread Anthony Sorace
putting psfonts in the pipeline after tr2post causes the correct fonts to be included. this is also what 9 man does in dopage. anthony

Re: [9fans] autoroff

2007-03-08 Thread Anthony Sorace
very nice indeed. most of my troff work these days is with man pages. it looks like replacing the line: { 9 tbl $tmp.tr | 9 troff -ms | tr2post >$tmp.ps_ with { `{doctype $tmp.tr} | tr2post >$tmp.ps_ will get it to use the right macro packages (and other tools as needed). i also a

Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

2007-03-07 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 3/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can you get under the hood if you can't figure out how to pop it up? Umm, read the documentation? 8½ was brilliant for that. unless you read at least the introduction to the system, you were getting *nowhere*. fast. i learned that my first day with my

Re: [9fans] floppy install?

2007-01-29 Thread Anthony Sorace
i believe the problem is that the dowloadable floppy is no longer modifying its plan9.ini file to set installurl, which the 'download' script relies on. edit plan9.ini (you can do this from anything that can read fat floppies), adding installurl=http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.

Re: [9fans] Fuse to 9p bridge?

2007-01-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
looks like at least (hopefully only) minor changes will be needed to 9pfuse (and mount, but that's trivial). i'm looking into it now, but if i don't get it in the next 45 minutes, i won't have another chance to look at it until tuesday. on first pass, it looks like just mountfuse() in 9pfuse/fuse

Re: [9fans] Fuse to 9p bridge?

2007-01-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
there is indeed: see $PLAN9/src/cmd/9pfuse. i think this just made my day.

Re: [9fans] /Library/LauchAgents/9pfs.plist

2006-12-21 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 12/21/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but apple decided to combine init, x?inetd and cron > (because they all start programs!) too bad they forgot sh! the GNU folks are progressively cramming as much of the system as they can into bash. eventually, we're only going to have two pro

Re: [9fans] /Library/LauchAgents/9pfs.plist

2006-12-21 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 12/21/06, Brantley Coile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where do I put the stuff below? note the subject line. launchd will scan /Library/LaunchAgents and /System/Library/LaunchAgents (i think also some other places? LaunchDaemons, or some such?). user-added ones go in /Library/LaunchAgents.

Re: Re: [9fans] Newbie question

2006-12-05 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 12/5/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: of course you could a) modify the kernel to allow one to use DEL at the console. not that i think it's a good idea, but couldn't one "just" either add this to rc or insert an intermediate processor? again, certainly not advocating it (if y

Re: Re: [9fans] Virtual PC server

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 9/19/06, Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My experience with Virtual PC (on a 1.25Ghz G4) is that it's much too slow for any kind of serious use. agreed, so long as you have to cross chip types. so i'd say it depends what "newer" means in the initial question. parallels, which just

Re: Re: [9fans] alpha port?

2006-09-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
i had a 21064 system sitting around. around '99 i tried to get plan9 working on it, without much luck. dhog gave me a little time on it and said the then-current port required at least a 21164, possibly a 21164A, as it relied on some extensions to the ISA. he wasn't interested in extending support

Re: Re: Re: [9fans] Aquarela usage

2006-09-05 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 9/5/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: this is probablly not exactly what you want, but p9p's 9p(1) is able to read, write and ls a 9p connection. i'm pretty sure russ has it going on osx. it might be just enough in a pinch. it does indeed work on OS X. we've got a significant s

Re: Re: Re: [9fans] I suppose if there's no other way to do it (a quote from the tcl web site)

2006-08-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 8/12/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's no prize for having the idea first if you don't do anything with it. somebody please tell the PTO.

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso for spark

2006-08-06 Thread Anthony Sorace
no (current) iso for sparc exists. you must build it from a PC (sadly). also, the port itself (themselves, really; there's two distinct "sparc" ports depending on what hardware you're interested in) is in a very basic state; i think you still need to boot from a separate file server (no local fs).

Re: Re: [9fans] Fs64 file server, partition boundaries out of range

2006-08-05 Thread Anthony Sorace
defining "ordinary" is, of course, impossible, but about yea fast: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/seanq/p9trace.html

Re: Re: [9fans] Re: Linux 9p timestamps

2006-07-31 Thread Anthony Sorace
// GMT is UTC+1 at summer. you misread the note on that page. UTC and GMT are the same, modulo leap seconds. GB is currently on British Summer Time, not GMT, and is one hour ahead of that.

Re: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 demos for 4+ CPUs?

2006-07-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
PAC was always internal-only. if i remember right, it became the basis for the audio encoding in MPEG-4, though. it provided better bitrate/quality and quality/cost-to-decompress ratios than mp3, but if you can do, say, AAC, you're even with or ahead of where PAC was.

Re: Re: Re: [9fans] mount 9P on Linux and FreeBSD via FUSE

2006-07-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
the new script 'mount' relies on a recent change to rc to allow unquoted ='s in argument lists. i suspect you're running an old rc. either update rc or modify the mount script to quote your ='s.

Re: [9fans] it's live

2006-07-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
i know you said "more later", but i'm impatient. i *think* this is really cool, but i'm not entirely sure. that is, i'm sure there are cool bits, but i don't know which ones. how's the thing work? i assume the embedded system's connected directly to the GPS, as you talked about a while ago, but i

Re: [9fans] impressive

2006-04-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 4/26/06, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are some debian BSD projects that seem to try to use glibc if I > recall correctly. there's a handful of projects trying to port the Debian bits to various BSDs. they all face the same argument early on: port glibc or use the existing

Re: [9fans] impressive

2006-04-25 Thread Anthony Sorace
On 4/25/06, Anthony Sorace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > works fine for me... um, nope. ignore that. too early in the morning.

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