Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-18 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 08:17 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > ; mntgen a > > > ; bind /env a/env > > > ; bind /bin a/bin > > > ; bind /proc a/proc > > > ; bind a / > > > ; ns > > > > > > consider it a security feature. > > > > Be it as it may, I still can't quite follow why *manual*

Re: [9fans] MacOS X drawterm doesn't toggle

2008-10-18 Thread Steve Simon
Did you (or anyone else) find the bug in osd drawterm where the cut and paste buffer is not properly terminated so earlier long cuts appear at the end of new shorter ones. I haven't explained this very well but if you have seen it I am sure you will know what I mean. -Steve

[9fans] Plan 9 floppy boot local hdd install onto IBM ThinkPad X30

2008-10-18 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
Hey folks, too bad that one can't post to comp.os.plan9 - I did this and now it's gone and I have to retype this ... ... so now a little shorter ;-) My plan is to install Plan 9 onto my ThinkPad X30 from a primary FAT32 partition by booting from an external (not usb) floppy drive. "If you wish t

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 floppy boot local hdd install onto IBM ThinkPad X30

2008-10-18 Thread erik quanstrom
> I tried this: > > boot from: fd0!9pccd.gz > booting fd0!9pccd.gz > error walking to 9pccd.gz > boot from: > > ... well I don't know further (I'm really new to Plan 9) > Any Help much appreciated :-) the floppy kernel is 9pcflop.gz so the answer to the boot from question is: fd0!9pcflop.gz -

Re: [9fans] Reading man pages in acme

2008-10-18 Thread hugo rivera
ok, thanks 2008/10/17 Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This has nothing to do with acme, see plumber(4) and /mnt/plumb/rules > > uriel > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:50 PM, hugo rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello: >> When one is using acme under plan 9, it is possible to click in a >> given man

Re: [9fans] MacOS X drawterm doesn't toggle

2008-10-18 Thread andrey mirtchovski
this http://9fans.net/archive/2007/01/301 ? Russ fixed it and I believe I helped with the testing and contributed a small change to allow UTF characters to be pasted correctly. On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you (or anyone else) find the bug in osd d

Re: [9fans] postscript fonts

2008-10-18 Thread Russ Cox
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > being a postscript font virgin, can somone help me with what is > probably a simple problem for one who knows. > >troff doc.ms | lp > gives me: >/386/bin/aux/tr2post: :168 :WARNING: cannot find glyph, > rune=

Re: [9fans] invisible prompt in win

2008-10-18 Thread Russ Cox
This is not a bug. At any point in time, there is a character position associated with the upper left corner of the text window. Text before that position is not shown; text at or after that position is shown, until it runs off the bottom of the window. Let's call that upper left character positi

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-18 Thread Russ Cox
> Hence the question -- would you be in favor > of continue adding things as needed. And > if so, what kind of of groundwork would > you expect from the contributors? Usually it is as simple as adding it to your own tree, adapting the mkfile, and making it build. U9fs is somewhat special since it

Re: [9fans] acme and openning of ", "", '''chk' scripts (by rsc)

2008-10-18 Thread Russ Cox
> is that an intention that acme does not recognize " (or "", not so sure > about '''chk' ) to be a name of a valid file? At least " and "" seems to me > to be a valid file name, but clicking on it with button 3 in acme doesn't > work --- file is not opened. Only explicit use of Get opens it. The