[9fans] nice appearance to Times font with accented characters (in acme)?

2009-09-28 Thread Jason Catena
My try (times/latin1.7a.font) could be improved. It does actually display accented characters (from pelm/latin1.8) interspersed with unaccented letters in the Times font. But it's a bit like a ransom note, or the Cyrillic font I designed and poked into my C64 in middle school: the baseline of the

Re: [9fans] /adm/timezone/EET is bad

2009-09-28 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Sep 28 09:34:51 EDT 2009, yari...@gmail.com wrote: > Today I noticed my Plan 9 machine displayed time which is 1 hr past > surrounding world. Digging around, I found that DST start/end dates > for Eastern-European Time (/adm/timezone/EET) for current year are > bad. Those follow pre-1996 c

[9fans] /adm/timezone/EET is bad

2009-09-28 Thread yaroslav
Today I noticed my Plan 9 machine displayed time which is 1 hr past surrounding world. Digging around, I found that DST start/end dates for Eastern-European Time (/adm/timezone/EET) for current year are bad. Those follow pre-1996 conventions for ending dates and does DST switch 2 hours later. Fo

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

2009-09-28 Thread Iruata Souza
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Russ Cox wrote: >> It's fast. But the big beauty of it for me is that in vx32/src/9vx/a >> is pretty much a plan 9 kernel in plan 9 C vernacular. I just spent an >> easy short time prototyping some new stuff that I can now drop into a >> real plan 9 kernel for Blue

Re: [9fans] Mounting Plan9 fs on Inferno

2009-09-28 Thread Charles Forsyth
it does work, and you can authenticate to plan 9 using Inferno's factotum (or, if you're running Inferno on Plan 9, using Plan 9's factotum within Inferno). the "bad fversion conversion ..." suggests that whatever you're running with aux/listen1 is spitting out something else before starting the p