Re: [9fans] A few questions about sam

2021-07-26 Thread revcomninos
On Tuesday, 27 July 2021, at 2:56 AM, Ethan Gardener wrote: > For completeness, one specific case not mentioned is opening a huge file. For > each file you open, Sam creates and initializes a temporary file several > times larger. If you open a gigabyte-size file, the initialization takes a > wh

Re: [9fans] Help with a sam cleanup script

2021-07-26 Thread revcomninos
In any event, is there not a way to run the script from within sam without using that particular version? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T10b1d559ae7d981e-M5ba554cb9f33ef440fb7c81e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox

Re: [9fans] Help with a sam cleanup script

2021-07-26 Thread revcomninos
On Monday, 26 July 2021, at 11:07 PM, ori wrote: > 9front's sam does not run on Debian linux. I assumed the version of sam that I downloaded from here:  https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/ was 9front' sam.  -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.co

Re: [9fans] Help with a sam cleanup script

2021-07-26 Thread Mark van Atten
On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 23:08, wrote: > > Quoth revcomni...@gmail.com: > > I do have 9front's sam installed > > I am running sam as a standalone on Debian Linux > > 9front's sam does not run on Debian linux. There is a port, now no longer active: https://bitbucket-archive.softwareheritage.org/proj

Re: [9fans] A few questions about sam

2021-07-26 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021, at 2:38 PM, revcomni...@gmail.com wrote: > The sam window is not always responsive to commands. Under what specific > conditions is this the case? For completeness, one specific case not mentioned is opening a huge file. For each file you open, Sam creates and initializes a

Re: [9fans] Help with a sam cleanup script

2021-07-26 Thread ori
Quoth revcomni...@gmail.com: > I do have 9front's sam installed > I am running sam as a standalone on Debian Linux 9front's sam does not run on Debian linux. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T10b1d559ae7d981e-Me2552dd83a5

Re: [9fans] Help with a sam cleanup script

2021-07-26 Thread revcomninos
On Wednesday, 21 July 2021, at 12:09 PM, umbraticus wrote: > also worth mentioning the ^ command if you're using 9front's sam. put your sam commands in script like this: #!/bin/rc cat << STOP x/ +/c/ x/\*/d STOP I cannot get ^script to work from within sam. I do have 9front's sam installed but