Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Matthew Veety
On May 2, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: Since I don't believe anyone has Plan 9 driving an e-Ink display (anyone? anyone?), paper does nicely. Maybe a good addition to the ARM port? -- Veety

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
> Is anyone updating at least the troff versions of the papers? That is, > if I go with the source, will I get something (more) current? It varies by paper. Some are updated, some not. The papers on the compiler suite get some updates, but the 8½ paper not. That paper, for example, provides a real

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Aharon Robbins
> /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/doc.tbz THANKS! Copying now (via 9pfuse). Arnold

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Taj Khattra
> > Has anyone tried producing the doc using groff under Linux, or would > it require a running Plan 9 system to correctly (re)generate everything? > not sure about groff, but i think they should be reproducible under linux using plan9port troff.

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread erik quanstrom
i couldn't forward the result in email. see /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/doc.tbz - erik

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread arnold
Thanks Erik. Is it hard to produce a tar ball of .ps or .pdf files from current troff input? Thanks, Arnold

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread erik quanstrom
[437 files] > Is anyone updating at least the troff versions of the papers? That is, > if I go with the source, will I get something (more) current? > > > > Stick with the source if you have doubts. > > > > Actually, that's not even necessary. The online HTML > > version gets the latest changes. Y

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Aharon Robbins
Hi Anthony. Thanks for the answers. > > Hi. Do the postscript / PDF files available from http://plan9.bell-labs.com > > reflect the current state of the system? I'm curious about both the > > reference> manual and the various files from /sys/doc. > > They do not. I've only verified that the mos

Re: [9fans] Question about o/mero -> o/live event notification mechanism

2012-05-02 Thread Nemo
On May 2, 2012, at 3:56 PM, aram wrote: > % cat olive > > I receive nothing, whereas by executing Because IIRC that file is used to speak a protocol. That is, unless you issue certain requests on that file, o/mero wont reply. That's used to synchronize all o/lives so that they all perform very

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
> Stick with the source if you have doubts. Actually, that's not even necessary. The online HTML version gets the latest changes. You'll only need the sources if you want to generate PS/PDF explicitly, say for printing. Anthony signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMa

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
> Hi. Do the postscript / PDF files available from http://plan9.bell-labs.com > reflect the current state of the system? I'm curious about both the reference > manual and the various files from /sys/doc. They do not. I've only verified that the most recent changes are not in there; I can't say h

Re: [9fans] Question about o/mero -> o/live event notification mechanism

2012-05-02 Thread aram
On Tue, 01 May 2012 11:58:28 +0300, Nemo wrote: On Apr 30, 2012, at 11:54 PM, aram wrote: Hi, i explore the UI of octopus and i try to understand how omero notifies the viewers for events. It is apparent from the documentation that the viewers "read" events from the ui/olive file. Howe

[9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread arnold
Hi. Do the postscript / PDF files available from http://plan9.bell-labs.com reflect the current state of the system? I'm curious about both the reference manual and the various files from /sys/doc. Thanks! Arnold

Re: [9fans] ARG_MAX of Plan9

2012-05-02 Thread cinap_lenrek
as far as i can see, its just limited by this: /* * Build the stack segment, putting it in kernel virtual for the moment */ if(spage > TSTKSIZ) error(Enovmem); in pc/mem.h:55: #define TSTKSIZ 100 /* pages in new stack; limi