[9fans] silly Q

hi all, what is the reason why the dir structure of /usr/xxx does not follow that of / (according to namespace(4)), please? e.g., /386/bin, /386/lib, /386/include, /rc/bin, /rc/lib, but, /usr/glenda/bin/386, /usr/glenda/bin/mips, /usr/glenda/bin/rc. thanks, ++pac.

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

First of all, thank you very much for your work, Eric ! >> sdiahci: drive 0 in state missing after 0 resets # strange! >> sdiahci: drive 1 in state missing after 0 resets # strange! > bug. probablly a drive power mgmt problem. was this a seperate boot? No. > this is a jmicron bug. i

[9fans] oh, no! (again)

Sadly, I was too optimistic when SATA install succeeded... :-( This is a report of error messages I've got while booting new system on (and from) sdE0: sdiahci: drive 0 in state ready after 0 resets # SATA HD with Plan 9 system on it sdiahci: drive 1 won't come up; in state new after 10 resets

[9fans] SATA inst. finally succeeded!

WOW! With the new cdimage from Eric's ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2, the install friom sdE1 was s smooth! Almost just hitting 'Enter' key all the time ;-) A big THANKYOU, Eric! After first login I got some 'black' messages, however: sdE0: i/o error 5...@4,461,520 fossil: di

Re: [9fans] SATA inst: some progress

Thank you very much, Erik! ++pac -Original Message- i can reproduce this problem but haven't yet figured out what's going on, yet. i think it's my error due to some junk sneaking onto cd. i'm working on it. - erik <>

[9fans] SATA inst: some progress

Hi, while installing from erik quanstrom's 9atom.iso CD, everything went just right up to: mountfs [/dev/sdE0/fossil] preparing menu ... fossil 833: suicide: sys: fp: stack overflow fppc=0x23304 status=0x82c1 pc=0x23308 'black' message is: matherror note: sys: fp: stack overflow fppc=0x23304

[9fans] oh, no!

hi, all, after two weeks of unsuccessful installation IDE CD to SATA HD, wit any conceivable combination of BIOS settings and 'boot from' settings, i bought a SATA CD, so now I have HD ( to be installed onto) on SATA1 CD *( to be installed from) on SATA2, and SATA configured as IDE in BIOS, howe

[9fans] installation Q

hi, did anyone succeed to install out-of-the-box when target HD is /dev/sdE0, and CD is on /dev/sdE1 ? i did not succeed with install on SATA from IDE CD. i ask before i go to buy a SATA DVD. i promise to update wiki 'installation' page when i succeed ;-) thanks, regards, ++pac.

[9fans] installing from sdC0 or sdC1 CD

installing from sdC0 or sdC1 CD, is it even possible?? If so what should be edited? Thanks, ++pac

[9fans] installation on SATA

hi, would an installation on SATA-IIdisk be smooth provided I have HD on sdE0, and CD on sdE1 (with appropriately modified plan9.ini)?? (going forSATA-CD if yes), thanks, ++pac

Re: [9fans] installation on SATA disk failed

Just a question: would it help if I had a SATA-DVD drive on sdE1 ? (And the target on sdE0, as it is now). Could I then install from the CD without fiddling? Perhaps, not more than editing plan9.ini? Thanks, regards, ++pac. <>

Re: [9fans] troff: references

> lbl from > http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=ftware.roff&F&G=worked http://www.ugu.com/pub/unix/sec1/lbl.tar.Z ++pac <>

Re: [9fans] installation on SATA disk failed

I have enabled AHCI in bios (instead of IDE mode before), now I can boot from sdE0!dos!9pcflop.gz, but only up to '[partdisk]: no disk devices were found on your system. The installation process cannot continue.' I still get 'biosdiskcall: int 13 op 041 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x1', b

[9fans] installation on SATYA disk failed

Hi, folks! I have bought a WDC WD1002FBYS-01A6B0 SATA II disk to install a Plan 9 on it. However , my CD/DVD drive is not SATA, but a rather old one hanging on an IDE cable (primary master). Moreover, there is only one IDE slot on the motherboard, thus I cannot make the CD to be 'secondary mas

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

hi, i'm quite happy with the 'cpdir' by Kenji Arisawa (thanks, Kenji!) on sources/contrib/arisawa. However, your scripty seems fine, too. Could we add a switch to conform with gnu's cp -au? Just not to overwrite newer files. I don't know there is an option there in 'tar' (I can't see in in tar

Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

> > > Maybe, it would also be great if the column-handle could react in the same > > way as the window-handle works: > > B3 to hide all other columns, B2 to show all and maximize the current > > column, B1 widen the current column. > wily does this ufff, so could sb put his/her hands on it t

Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

Maybe, it would also be great if the column-handle could react in the same way as the window-handle works: B3 to hide all other columns, B2 to show all and maximize the current column, B1 widen the current column. I don't know whether it is even possible in current design, nor, if it is, how co

Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

> I also take issue with the statement "Acme is a text editor," that never > sounds right, no more than describing Emacs as > a text editor. It's natural to use Acme as a text editor and it provides > many more text-editing facilities than Rio > does, but it is also natural to use it as a fi

Re: [9fans] preprocessing C code

Thanks, going there, Peter. -Original Message- > I'm APE-porting some programs densely peppered wioth #-directives. I have this too, try: contrib/install steve/unifdef -Steve <>

[9fans] which model of SATA II HD?

Does anyone have a SATA II 1TB (or more) hard drive working under Plan 9? I am about to buy one, and it would be nice to know that the model was tested. And yes, I read the wiki, but I don't know how to realize about which controller is used by the by the HD in my basklet :-) thanks, ++pac.

[9fans] preprocessing C code

Hi all, I'm APE-porting some programs densely peppered wioth #-directives. Is there a way to preprocess the code, say: #define CLIENTSERVER0 #if CLIENTSERVER blah blah blah... #else //some useful code here #endif /*CLIENTSERVER*/ to get: //some useful code here ?? I mean, just to ext

[9fans] Announcing: glimpse (APE)

An APE-port of the 'glimpse text indexing and search suite is on sources: /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/glimpse-4.18.6.tbz http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/glimpse-4.18.6.tbz Included is 'agrep', grep with spelling errors. Unfortunately, all the stuff

Re: [9fans] How to add another (local) fossil partition?

-Původní zpráva- Od: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net za uživatele Yaroslav Odesláno: pá 26.6.2009 15:40 Komu: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Předmět: Re: [9fans] How to add another (local) fossil partition? Thank you , Yaroslav. I missed the fossil(4) manpage. I'll try again on Monday,

[9fans] How to add another (local) fossil partition?

hello, i want to format and add a free space on /dev/sdC0 for use with fossil. i ended up with /dev/sdC0/plan9 and /dev/sdC0/plan9.1 partitions... then i did: disk/prep –w –a fossil /dev/sdC0/plan9.1 but now, i cant find any clue what to do next , in prep(8), or fossilcons(8) sorry for this stu

Re: [9fans] window's content clearing

Wouldn't Acme be a nice UI? (Repeating myself, sorry). ++pac In acme you can do something like Edit ,$-1d but I don't know how to deal with a terminal outside acme. 2009/4/8, Rudolf Sykora : > Hello, > > Imagine I have a rio window with a long history, i.e. lots of text > hav

Re: [9fans] music video that everone on this list will agree with :-)

Yep!! Another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5LNTTGDKYo ++pac == C++ is to C as lung cancer is to lung . [anonymous on the Web] == <>

Re: [9fans] pdf2txt anyone??

Thanks, Steve! Have a great day, ++pac -Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net on behalf of Steve Simon Sent: Thu 3/5/2009 10:18 PM To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] pdf2txt anyone?? This may work for you but your mileage may vary. /n/sources/contrib/steve/rc/ps2txt

[9fans] (no subject)

-Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net on behalf of mattmob...@proweb.co.uk Sent: Mon 2/23/2009 1:13 AM To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: [9fans] actionfs Hi, this one was an experiment /n/sources/contrib/maht/actionfs.c invoked with a regex like actionfs (file.mpg).([0-9]+).(

[9fans] pdf2txt anyone??

hi all!! seeking existing solutions to PDF --> txt extraction before i dive to rewriting xpdf to C. i hope that [page &&/|| gs] must be capable of it ... best regards, ++pac

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

I found a mirror at http://www.kix.in/plan9/mirror/sources/contrib/ It is working, cheers, ++pac -Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net on behalf of Pietro Gagliardi Sent: Tue 2/10/2009 5:13 AM To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Subject: Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

>> This is my only concern over the whole "sources is gone" thing; this >> time the web interface has been down for longer than usual (two weeks, >> maybe more?). >not true. i just tried it an http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ >comes up instantly. perhaps your machine is on the fritz?

Re: [9fans] Plan9's Price?

Plan 9 Wiki: http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/ <>

[9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

? ++pac

Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)

>> How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon? >From a UI design perspective, it's not clear what it ought to look >like. More strongly, I'm not really convinced there *is* a good way >for a UI like that to work. You'd have all the problems the X11 tiled >window manager

Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)

>> Yes, it is more about the number of options than >> anything else. >> >i go a little further. after using acme, menus sure feel >clunky. [cut] How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon? thanks, ++pac <>

Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)

> i seem to remember that russ's " and "" commands (which > i've failed to find) just scan the console text for lines that start with the > current prompt - which has its own disadvantages. I have copies of those commands, if anybody is interested... ++pac <>

Re: [9fans] graphics scaling

>> - are there any command-line tools to rescale images, etc? i remember >> earlier edition of plan9 had command-line tools. >resample(1) /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/img/netpbm-10.26.1.tbz ++pac. <>

Re: [9fans] troff bibliography

i have aded the -B option from heirloom to forsyth's port of refer, plus a simple script 'roffbib.rc' that makes complete bibliography from the database, plus a tmac.bib macro; the stuff is in: /n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/refer.tgz until, perhaps, forsyth will host it?? enjoy, ++

Re: [9fans] troff bibliography

yep. i'll try just refer&allies, and we'll see. looks like it wouldn't make much problem, namely if i follow the style forsyth did the ape port... thanks, regards, peter, aka ++pac. >This is probably because the Heirloom tools are different from the >Plan 9 tools. I think you should try comp

Re: [9fans] troff bibliography

seems like doref() does it all... ++pac <>

Re: [9fans] troff bibliography

yes. i have it, but it does not work due to the lack of -B switch. i took and edited the tmac.bib from heirloom sources, however -B in refer seems to be essentiali'm diving into heirloom refer2.c to see what -B does... thanks, ++pac. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behal

[9fans] troff bibliography

Hi, how do I publish complete bibliographies w/ refer | troff? (on loonix I use this: /usr/bin/refer -B bib | nroff -mbib but with refer and tmac.bib from heirloom-doctools: the -B option is essential (beat me for still using loonix)) thanks, ++pac.

Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2) Some suggestions to pic: a rounded rectangle (groff has an arc attribute), lines to connect the ends of an arc to its effective center (useful for making pie charts), a fill color attribute. Any objections? Would love to see it implemented. Please, consider also PS fill pattern. Cross f

[9fans] A0 poster w/troff

this: .pl 46.8i .ll 33.1i .ps 144 Hello, world! produces a big font text, but on A4 page, as viewed in 'page' bbox is wrong, in foo.ps after running troff -ms foo | dpost | foo.ps How can I change the default paper size? Any hint appreciated, cheers, ++pac.

Re: [9fans] ext2srv

Hi, I noticed that ext2srv did not do well with files > 2GB,and, says 'disk full' when there is more than (I guess) 1024 files in a directory. However, I do not have the latest distribution of ext2srv... Thanks for your work, iru! ++pac -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

Re: [9fans] ext2srv

would help me much until I get rid of linux completely. I have dirs with big photos (~ 300MB each) so I had to split them into subdirs to hadle them via ext2srv. i also tried tofiddle with the source, but I gave up. Many thanks, ++pac. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on beh

Re: [9fans] ext2srv

Does it still suffer from the 2GB size problem, or s it solved already? Thanks, ++pac On 5/12/08, Iruata Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 9fans, > > I have hacked ext2srv to support symlinks so that now, when resolving > a name, a walk will present the client with the file pointed to by the

Re: [9fans] Worksheet program

Welcome!! If you want a native p9, look here first for compatible HW: http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html To install, look here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Installation_instructions/index.html C compiler man page is here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/m

Re: [9fans] Worksheet program

> Do you think it is very cool to program in plan9 ? yep. <>

Re: [9fans] Worksheet program

> You might try control(2) instead. See /sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum/fgui.c /sys/src/cmd/bitsy/keyboard.c > for examples. > Sape Alternatively, you might like to use Acme interface. ++pac <>