Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:14 AM, V-CA ! Christoph Paschke wrote: > @Nemo > > Ok, I just want start with a very easy constellation: > > 1.) I installed octopus on top of my MacMini (newest version) at my > televison in living room, he running also Mac-Server > 2.) I got the terminal started at an

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Mar 13 15:08:48 EDT 2012, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: > > On 2012-03-13, at 12:03 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > this naturally puts it somewhat > > at odds with itself. > > Sadly, I think that's what turns people away from Plan 9: they only get to > see a pale shadow of its worth :-( its

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-03-13, at 12:03 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > this naturally puts it somewhat > at odds with itself. Sadly, I think that's what turns people away from Plan 9: they only get to see a pale shadow of its worth :-(

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> It's just very confusing knowing how P9 concepts apply in an emulated > environment. It's frustrating even for those of us (okay, me) who have been > tooling around with P9P (and the like) for years. Every day a new surprise > ... :-| p9p's raison is to get along with the local environment,

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-03-13, at 11:55 AM, Nemo wrote: > What Lyndon said is also true, btw. I'm not saying it's not. > Only that you can also wrap non-native devices with little > file servers, as in this case. It's just very confusing knowing how P9 concepts apply in an emulated environment. It's frustratin

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Nemo
I think in the octopus we have a print device that used the underlying default printer. It should be in /mnt/print or /mnt/terms/yourmachinename/print Take a look to the start scripts to see if print is starting or printing some diagnostics. So, cp afile.pdf /mnt/print should print it there. A

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-03-13, at 11:14 AM, V-CA ! Christoph Paschke wrote: > For me it is most important that I can realize what is promised from that > operting system according "all resources, also devices are a file" and that > this idea is more than a theory! This only applies if you're running native Pl