Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-24 Thread Bence Fábián
to clarify: it is an rc script, but the echo commands pump commands to a ksh through an acme win window. then he collects the output 2014-04-24 6:25 GMT+02:00 Alexander Kapshuk : > I'm sorry I confused you. In my second email I did mention that the > script was used to set a prompt and an acme w

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-23 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I'm sorry I confused you. In my second email I did mention that the script was used to set a prompt and an acme window name when running win and being logged onto UNIX. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Jacob Todd wrote: > Then why did you say it was rc? What's wrong with you. > > On Apr 24, 2014

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-23 Thread Jacob Todd
Then why did you say it was rc? What's wrong with you. On Apr 24, 2014 12:18 AM, "Alexander Kapshuk" wrote: > That's OK. It's actually ksh on AIX. > > Thanks for your feedback anyway. > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:34 PM, erik quanstrom > wrote: > >> >>> #!/bin/rc > >> >>> { > >> >>> echo 'ec

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-23 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
That's OK. It's actually ksh on AIX. Thanks for your feedback anyway. On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:34 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> >>> #!/bin/rc >> >>> { >> >>> echo 'echo $SYSNAME!`uname -n`!$USER' >> >>> echo 'PS1='':; '' PS2='' ''' >> >>> } >/dev/$winid/body >> > this is not valid rc. >> > >

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> >>> #!/bin/rc > >>> { > >>> echo 'echo $SYSNAME!`uname -n`!$USER' > >>> echo 'PS1='':; '' PS2='' ''' > >>> } >/dev/$winid/body > > this is not valid rc. > > > > - erik > > > If it's not too much trouble, would you mind demonstrating what valid rc > would be for the part of the script in questio

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-23 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 04/23/2014 09:07 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> is '!' a metacharacter in regexes? regex(6) doesn't say anything about it. >> > it is not. > > however > >>> #!/bin/rc >>> { >>> echo 'echo $SYSNAME!`uname -n`!$USER' >>> echo 'PS1='':; '' PS2='' ''' >>> } >/dev/$winid/body > this is not valid rc.

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> is '!' a metacharacter in regexes? regex(6) doesn't say anything about it. > it is not. however > > #!/bin/rc > > { > > echo 'echo $SYSNAME!`uname -n`!$USER' > > echo 'PS1='':; '' PS2='' ''' > > } >/dev/$winid/body this is not valid rc. - erik

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-23 Thread Bence Fábián
is '!' a metacharacter in regexes? regex(6) doesn't say anything about it. 2014-04-23 9:29 GMT+02:00 Alexander Kapshuk : > Turns out, the reason why writing '/[A-Z]+\![a-z0-9]+\![0-9a-z]+' to > /dev/$winid/addr would fail for me is because sending a string > represented by the regular expressio

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-23 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Turns out, the reason why writing '/[A-Z]+\![a-z0-9]+\![0-9a-z]+' to /dev/$winid/addr would fail for me is because sending a string represented by the regular expression in question to /dev/$winid/body was immediately followed by writing the regexp to addr. Putting a while loop on the 'echo regexp

Re: [9fans] writing to /dev/$winid/addr

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, I'm working on a script where I want to get hold of a particular string and use it as a new name of a particular window. What I've tried so far, although not successfully, is writing to /dev/$winid/addr with the intention of then being able to read the string found from the /dev/$winid/dat