Re: [9fans] Plan9 Sources Repository

2014-07-19 Thread pmarin
Plan9 in general doesn't follow the Bazaar model ( the current usual way of doing things ). On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 11:31 AM, dante wrote: > I would like first to thank everyone for the kind replies! > Each was useful in it's own way. > > > On 18.07.2014 16:36, erik quanstrom wrote: >>> >>> Yet

Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

2013-09-06 Thread pmarin
I thought all the discussion of how the development process should be more open ended with the creation of 9front. For me one of the best things about 9front is that I can follow all the changes in the code by reading their mailing list. pmarin On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote

Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently?

2013-05-03 Thread pmarin
What about mupdf? It has few dependecies [1] http://mupdf.com/doc/ [1] http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;a=tree;f=thirdparty;hb=HEAD pmarin. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:16 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Fri May 3 13:15:41 EDT 2013, knapj...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Is a PS

Re: [9fans] info for manual

2013-01-15 Thread pmarin
There is no translation of the manual in other language, sorry but it's just product of your imagination. People still don't understand that sarcasm and irony don't work in Internet, they only produce noise and confusion. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Francesco Cardi wrote: >> ah ok and it w

Re: [9fans] 9atom on Dell Inspiron Mini 9

2013-01-10 Thread pmarin
See the 9front wiki: http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/usbboot Probably it only works for the 9front version of Plan9 On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Alexander Shendi (Web.de) wrote: > Hello 9fans, > > I'm planning to install Plan 9 on a spare i386 machine, a Dell Inspiron Mini > 9 netbo

Re: [9fans] unicode fonts in troff

2012-11-06 Thread pmarin
Can you describe the process or at least where did you get all the info for doing this thing? On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Pavel Klinkovsky wrote: >> I'd like to use it under plan9 but sadly i don't have the knowhow. >> Maybe someone smarter will fix it. > > To allow the "special" characters

Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory

2012-11-02 Thread pmarin
To be clear, is the swap partition completely useless in Plan9? pmarin. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > There's a non-trivial chance that what now goes wrong with paging > (which did once work, even if it isn't great) is a symptom of a bug > that a

Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs

2012-06-18 Thread pmarin
> do you mind quoting it here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&feature=youtu.be&t=49m45s

Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports?

2012-05-25 Thread pmarin
See the example in tr2post(1) On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: > Is there a simple recipe to use p9p troff to format the manual pages > from the plan 9 dist?  I.e.: > >        Install Plan 9 Ports >        wget plan9.iso from bell labs >        mount said iso /some/where >  

Re: [9fans] devdrawserver

2012-04-24 Thread pmarin
http://summerofdevdraw.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/9p-srv-experimental-devdraw-for-p9p.html On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:57 PM, marius a. eriksen wrote: > I've found myself in need of running acme on one machine, but devdraw > on another. Since p9p devdraw isn't a file server, exporting and > importing

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-08 Thread pmarin
In 15 years Tcl has been improved a lot, like any other language. On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:21 AM, ron minnich wrote: > Well, I did 9p clients for testing 15 years ago. It might have been > the right thing then; I was even making nfs clients in tcl back then. > > Would I do it again? > > No > > r

Re: [9fans] 9p hello world

2011-09-05 Thread pmarin
http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:56 PM, s s wrote: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:03 AM, yy wrote: >> >> 2011/9/5 s s : >> > It seems like there might be a hello world example for libixp ... >> > >> > http://www.anarchyinthetubes.com/src/hello_libixp >> >> I wrote that,

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread pmarin
lay->black, nil, ZP); and change "f->display-> black" to "f->cols[TEXT]" Cheers. pmarin. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM, EBo wrote: > I'll be gone this weekend so Monday would be more than fine. > >  Best regards, > >  EBo -- > > On Fri,

Re: [9fans] wiki...

2011-04-22 Thread pmarin
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Guruplug/index.html I spend 2 second to find it, but is true that the wiki have search issues. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 11 Apr 2011, at 2:51 pm, David Leimbach wrote: > >> I posted some on the wiki about how I got the

Re: [9fans] where to get color troff?

2011-04-12 Thread pmarin
/sys/src/cmd/postscript/mcolor/ On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Fernan Bolando wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Sape Mullender > wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Peter A. Cejchan >> > wrote: >> > >> >> do you mean 'graph', or 'chart' ? >> >> ++pac >> >> >> > >> > r

Re: [9fans] I can't boot Plan 9 after install it with 9atom (the system is rebooted)

2011-04-10 Thread pmarin
Ok. I have installed Plan9 in an empty hard disk and the bootloader works fine. have the bootloader got any problems if the Plan9 partition is above 1024 cylinders? Cheers. pmarin On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:18 AM, pmarin wrote: > I have a problem after installing 9atom in an old HP Optiplex GX

[9fans] I can't boot Plan 9 after install it with 9atom (the system is rebooted)

2011-04-08 Thread pmarin
I have a problem after installing 9atom in an old HP Optiplex GX110 (i810e/PIII) When I start the machine the screen only show PBS2...Plan 9 from Bell Labs and after a few second the machine is rebooted. Can someone tell me what I have to do now? Some info ( a few Spanglish sorry): fdisk -l

Re: [9fans] Making read(1) an rc(1) builtin?

2011-04-03 Thread pmarin
Write some real world tests using bash/GNU tools, rc (with static linked versions of p9p) and tell us what happend. Maybe you will be surprised. [1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/ On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:30 AM, wrote: > I'm in the process of writing some filters in rc(1).  One thing th

Re: [9fans] GSoC Widget library

2011-04-03 Thread pmarin
While browsing in 9fans today I discovered that some people actually have written cool user interfaces in Plan9: http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558827311549&w=2 http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/Tyrrhena.gif http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/Tyrrhena2.gif On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:1

Re: [9fans] GSoC Widget library

2011-04-01 Thread pmarin
Which one? Acme/Abaco style or TK/limbo or panel library... On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jacob Todd wrote: > Plan 9 already has a widget philosophy, it just needs to be applied to a > library (supposedly).

Re: [9fans] plan9 ms .if h test

2011-03-30 Thread pmarin
rying to distinguish between troff and nroff. To write a conditional matching troff alone, use ‘.if !h .if t’." http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/htmlroff.html Cheers. pmarin. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:12 PM, pmarin wrote: > Never mind: ".if c" is only using for built-ins. &

Re: [9fans] plan9 ms .if h test

2011-03-30 Thread pmarin
Never mind: ".if c" is only using for built-ins. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:55 PM, pmarin wrote: > I searched where the register h is defined: > > % 9 grep -n '.nr h ' tmac.* > > tmac.cs:103: .nr h 6 > tmac.cs:477: .  nr h \\ne \} > tmac.mcs:208: .nr h 6 &

Re: [9fans] plan9 ms .if h test

2011-03-30 Thread pmarin
cs and tmac.mcs load tmac.s in their inicialization so probably h only have sense when tmac.cs or tmac.mcs are used. I think that if you are only using the ms macros then h is not important because is not defined. Cheers. pmarin. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: >

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
Also to pay attention to the command .wh in my example: .wh -1i NP \" When you reach the final of the page less 1 inch call the command .NP On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:02 AM, pmarin wrote: > Becouse "The backslash character \ is used to introduce troff commands > and special ch

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > On 25 March 2011 22:52, pmarin wrote: >> DONE! >> Try the attached code. I am not using the ms macros. You will to >> change the ms macros to get something similar. >> >> troff test.ms | tr2post | psfonts >

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
DONE! Try the attached code. I am not using the ms macros. You will to change the ms macros to get something similar. troff test.ms | tr2post | psfonts > test.ps Cheers. pmarin On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello 9fans, > > since in the previous thread s

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
Read carefully the section 9, 10 and 11 of "A TROFF Tutorial"[1]. I think is exactly what you are looking for. [1] http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/trofftut/trofftut.ps On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello 9fans, > > since in the previous thread started by me ('

Re: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

2011-03-25 Thread pmarin
My theory is that GNU tools were so bloated by design that they realized that they couldn't write a decent man page for their tools so they invented the info pages and the --help flag. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Fri Mar 25 07:52:10 EDT 2011, arn...@skeeve.com wr

Re: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

2011-03-22 Thread pmarin
A very gentle introduction about Troff macros is "A TROFF Tutorial" by Kernighan. (http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html) A great and complete book with macros like you are looking for is "Unix Text Processing". You can download it from http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/ On Tue, Mar 22, 20

Re: [9fans] mia

2011-03-10 Thread pmarin
Hi Mark! On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > that sounds rugged. still trying to get someone in china to make > kevlar boxer shorts with da space bunny on the butt. they'll make > everything else. > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Graham Gallagher > wrote: >>> well not real

Re: [9fans] Fix for using Plan9 compose sequences with Spanish keyboards in X

2011-01-04 Thread pmarin
Sorry I forgot the diaeresis: quotedbl → dead_diaeresis Reattached the awk script. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:26 PM, pmarin wrote: > Spanish keyboards use different keysyms which are generated by the > following dead keys: > > asciitilde →  dead_tilde > grave  → dead_grav

[9fans] Fwd: Fix for using Plan9 compose sequences with Spanish keyboards in X

2011-01-04 Thread pmarin
b/keyboard | awk -f spkeys.awk >$HOME/.XCompose Cheers. Pmarin spkeys.awk Description: Binary data

Re: [9fans] plan 9 compose sequences under X

2011-01-03 Thread pmarin
ms.  Quoting the updated keyboard(7): It works also in other x clients like xterm and tcl/tk. Thank you Russ. Cheers. pmarin

Re: [9fans] Non-VESA video card

2010-10-31 Thread pmarin
The some of the raedon X1xxx series still use the PCI slot. Plan9 drivers is another story. http://www.visiontek.com/1000-series-cards/radeon-x1300/radeon-x1300-256mb-pci.html On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 27 Oct 2010, at 6:12 pm, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>

Re: [9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread pmarin
I wanted to remove this character from some files. I tried to do it with the p9p tr(1) and I noticed that It does not support '\r'.

[9fans] Character CR in Plan9?

2010-04-20 Thread pmarin
Hi all. I notice that in Plan9 (p9p) the character CR is not represented with '\r'. What I have to use instead? Cheers. pmarin

Re: [9fans] Where can i get teh code of the Paln 9

2009-11-23 Thread pmarin
http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/ http://github.com/ericvh/plan-9/ On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM, vsong wrote: > Hi, > I want to learn about the Plan 9 OS, and I want to read its source > code and compile it.Where can i check out it? > > thx > >

Re: [9fans] Practical issue on using rc shell

2009-11-13 Thread pmarin
fortunately, in unix you can run go :). On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Nick LaForge wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:46 PM, pmarin wrote: >> Fortu >> >> fortunately, the unix world is less radical, you can use rlfe >> http://per.bothner.com/software/ >>

Re: [9fans] Practical issue on using rc shell

2009-11-13 Thread pmarin
ng rc with 9term, or > inside an Acme "win" session. > Plan 9 is very mouse driven and you should use a terminal window that lets > you take advantage of that interactivity. > Dave > >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Maurício >> >> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com > fortunately, the unix world is less radical, you can use rlfe http://per.bothner.com/software/ pmarin

Re: [9fans] An excerpt from Syllable's description

2009-08-03 Thread pmarin
I wonder if is possible that underground operating systems like Haiku, Aros or Plan9 should share some kind of knowledge database (not only the source code) about drivers implementation and don't try to reinvent the wheel. Haiku seems to do a great job, for example their network drivers are taken f

[9fans] [newbie] Some 9vx questions

2009-01-12 Thread pmarin
Hi all. I am using 9vx compiled from the source code and using the full tree (http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/plan9.tar.bz2). When I start 9vx I have to press the enter key twice: ->9vx -r plan9/ -u glenda ->256 memory: 0M kernel data, 256M user, 256M swap ->init: starting /bin/rc ->[ I press ente