[9fans] Boot from USB

Dear All, I am reading in your discussions, and also on some places on the net, that it is, in fact, possible to boot plan 9 off a USB key, but that it is not very straightforward. Is there any particular tutorial/guide/... which you could recommend me? For me, it would be nice (and convenient)

Re: [9fans] Mail configuration

2009/3/2 <6o205z...@sneakemail.com>: > I must be getting dumber, but while I think I successfully built and > installed src/cmd/upas/nfs as mailfs (P9P on debian/testing linux), I > have failed to figure out how to get it to talk to my dovecot server. > Can someone post an example of the command-l

Re: [9fans] Mail configuration

factotum -g 'key=mykey proto=pass service=imap server=yourserverurl user=yourimapusername !password?' then mailfs yourserverurl or, if you want tls: mailfs -t yourserverurl Once it has returned, you can use as a ui the Mail command in acme for example. Cheers, Mathieu --- Begin Message --

Re: [9fans] Visual font viewer

i think it was me. a quick check of dump gives july 2003 for the creation date. it was only an hour or so's work - the UI could be better! 2009/3/1 Steve Simon : >> Is there a program that will render some subset of a font file so that >> you get a quick feel for what it looks like? > > I have som

[9fans] type signatures

Hi, I get a different type sygnature depending on weather the arg to a function contains members which are in scope or not - is this expected or a bug? for example: /* junk.c */ typedef struct unknown unknown; #ifdef DEF struct unknown { int a; }; #endif typedef struct arg arg; struct a

Re: [9fans] netbook ( no cd ) install help

The image that I have is equivalent to the Plan9 floppy disk. You need to have the content of the distribution copied somewhere on the hard disk, or install from the network. Thanks, Lucho On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Latchesa

[9fans] type signatures

Isn't this what #pragma incomplete is for? > From: st...@quintile.net > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Reply-To: 9fans@9fans.net > Date: Mon Mar 2 16:24:23 CET 2009 > Subject: [9fans] type signatures > > Hi, > > I get a different type sygnature depending on weather the arg to a function > cont

Re: [9fans] my /dev/time for Linux

Two things. First, I had to include to get this to build on my machine with 2.6.28 and second, do you have any plans to get this accepted upstream? Thanks for putting the time into this! On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Chris Brannon wrote: > I wrote a module that emulates Plan 9's /dev/time u

Re: [9fans] type signatures

> Isn't this what > #pragma incomplete > is for? yep, I completely forgot about it. Thanks, -Steve

Re: [9fans] hyphen.tex

> you are missing /sys/lib/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen.tex [sic]. on the nose, Thanks Russ. -Steve

Re: [9fans] type signatures

that seems correct. if you want an incomplete type, you can specify that (with pragma incomplete).--- Begin Message --- Hi, I get a different type sygnature depending on weather the arg to a function contains members which are in scope or not - is this expected or a bug? for example: /* junk.c *

[9fans] AC97 Driver Bug (w/FIX)

More info here: http://jtomaschke.blogspot.com/2009/02/plan9-ac97-driver-bug.html This is based on mason's contrib ac97.tgz. I placed my code above the if/elseif to provide it with an initial state in case both tests fail. After this, kvm -soundhw ac97 gave me audio in my virtual environment.