Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-19 Thread Akshat Kumar
hiro: > Yeah, I think your arguments make perfectly sense. > I would still be interested to know whether Akshat had the same > thoughts in mind:) I have great affinity for everything Plan 9 -- from the superficial interface to the depths of its methodology (although, I was recently dumped by venti

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread LiteStar numnums
Inline On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:52 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Well, actually, I was thinking of something along the lines of Lisaac: > > "dynamic" modules are statically compiled ala object files, & the run > time > > handles issues between Plan9 & Inferno. Sys->load & the like would not be >

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread erik quanstrom
> Well, actually, I was thinking of something along the lines of Lisaac: > "dynamic" modules are statically compiled ala object files, & the run time > handles issues between Plan9 & Inferno. Sys->load & the like would not be > dynamic, but would work as expected. Hell, it could even just be a > .N

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread LiteStar numnums
Well, actually, I was thinking of something along the lines of Lisaac: "dynamic" modules are statically compiled ala object files, & the run time handles issues between Plan9 & Inferno. Sys->load & the like would not be dynamic, but would work as expected. Hell, it could even just be a .Net/perl2ex

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread erik quanstrom
> > >Or have a native Limbo compiler; I've been itching for that for some time, > > > > it doesn't mean anything. > > Uh, considering that ircfs is for Inferno (via Limbo), having a Limbo > compiler to native Plan9 would be a potential solution, assuming the run > time could be kept the same. de t

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread LiteStar numnums
Uh, considering that ircfs is for Inferno (via Limbo), having a Limbo compiler to native Plan9 would be a potential solution, assuming the run time could be kept the same. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >Or have a native Limbo compiler; I've been itching for that for so

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread Charles Forsyth
>Or have a native Limbo compiler; I've been itching for that for some time, it doesn't mean anything.

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread LiteStar numnums
Or have a native Limbo compiler; I've been itching for that for some time, but I've much else on my hands. One day when free... On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an > > ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, s

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread hiro
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> >> I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an >> ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, seems like a total waste of time >> when you have a perfectly fine one in limbo, which is a much more >> convenient language for build

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread Steve Simon
>> >> I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an >> ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, seems like a total waste of time >> when you have a perfectly fine one in limbo, which is a much more >> convenient language for building such a thing anyway. >> [snip] > so, since an irc

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread erik quanstrom
> > I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an > ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, seems like a total waste of time > when you have a perfectly fine one in limbo, which is a much more > convenient language for building such a thing anyway. > the op said he was running plan

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread hiro
>I don't want to > run Inferno > outside of Plan 9, and certainly not over a remote connection to Plan 9 (these > also being my only options -- unless someone wants to start creating drivers > for > Atheros wireless cards) Couldn't you run Inferno inside of plan9?

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread Uriel
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > Although there is already an ircfs for Inferno, since I don't want to > run Inferno outside of Plan 9 Why not? > and certainly not over a remote connection to Plan 9 Why not? > (these > also being my only options -- unless someone wants to

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
Regarding nadict (the rc scripted Acme interface to dict(7)), for those interested, I plan to add the remaining "Next", "Prev", and "Nmatch" functionalities as found in adict. Of the brief trials I did with this, it seemed to get messy. Although there is already an ircfs for Inferno, since I don't

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-17 Thread Eris Discordia
So it did on Windows + Mulberry. I know, I know, I'll shut up. --On Friday, January 16, 2009 8:17 PM -0500 erik quanstrom wrote: On Fri Jan 16 20:16:55 EST 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: the subject header in the last message came out to be very ugly due to GMail's default encodin

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-16 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Jan 16 20:16:55 EST 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: > the subject header in the last message came out to be very ugly > due to GMail's default encoding. now using Unicode > > sorry > ak looked fine on plan 9. - erik

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
the subject header in the last message came out to be very ugly due to GMail's default encoding. now using Unicode sorry ak

[9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
Certain applications have been blessed with 9fans' ignorance for too long. dict(7) and friends seemed to be becoming over-joyous. For those interested in Japanese on Plan 9, I provide here (edict2.tar) scripts to convert Jim Breen's extended Japanese dictionary, EDICT2, to a format usable with dic