Re: [9fans] Visual font viewer

2009-03-30 Thread frederic . bonfanti
Long time ago (May 2003), I did some tools to grab all Unicode Glyphs and assembled them into relevent font files. +F Grey:unicode fred$ ls -l total 5528 -rwxrwxrwx 1 fred fred 2750 May 14 2003 Alphabetic_Pres_Forms.14 -rwxrwxrwx 1 fred fred 6163 May 14 2003 Arabic.14 -rwxrwxrwx 1 fred

Re: [9fans] Fwd: New Chip (SEAforth 40C18) - New

2009-03-30 Thread Icarus Sparry
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:43:34 +, Bruce Ellis wrote: > There is new fun in Casella land. 9fans with Forth experience are > needed. > > Feel free to join the Casella group. > > -- Forwarded message -- From: brucee > > Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:21 PM > Subject: New Chip (SEAf

Re: [9fans] Visual font viewer

2009-03-30 Thread Frederic Bonfanti
> Does anyone remember how the Plan 9 font files came to be?  I'm going to go > out on a limb here and bet that some poor soul didn't enter them by hand... > I'd also wager that they weren't created on Plan 9 directly... > > So, was(were) some tool(s) used, especially in the conversion from a "mor

Re: [9fans] fossil caching venti errors

2009-03-30 Thread C H Forsyth
doppio% 9fs sources post... doppio% md5sum /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/boot/pc/ether82563.c md5sum: error reading /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/boot/pc/ether82563.c: venti i/o error or wrong score, block 72804bdc64d1a772cd4b2eaeda6f1e1b8f175b21 hmmm. it's not just my system.

Re: [9fans] fossil caching venti errors

2009-03-30 Thread C H Forsyth
never mind. i think it's not a sign of the problem we were discussing, but possibly something is simply down.--- Begin Message --- doppio% 9fs sources post... doppio% md5sum /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/boot/pc/ether82563.c md5sum: error reading /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/boot/pc/ether82563.c: venti i/o

Re: [9fans] Fwd: New Chip (SEAforth 40C18) - New

2009-03-30 Thread Bruce Ellis
I disagree. It is a chore going thru the religion and it ends up not having any relevance to the chip. brucee On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Icarus Sparry wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:43:34 +, Bruce Ellis wrote: > >> There is new fun in Casella land. 9fans with Forth experience are >> n

[9fans] getting message need /sys/man/2/genrandom

2009-03-30 Thread ROuNIN
Hello all, I am not sure why I am getting this message, after doing a recent pull command: term% pull post... c sys/man/2/rand a sys/man/2/genrandom 664 sys sys 1196638940 c 386/lib/ape/libap.a c sys/src/boot/pc/ether82563.c term% man genrandom need /sys/man/2/genrandom term% man genrandom need /s

[9fans] Managed/Automated IPv6 addresses via RA's

2009-03-30 Thread bdheeman
Friends, An IPv6 enabled ADSL Linux gadget here on our network is acting as a DHCP Server, IPv4 and IPv6 Router and a Firewall. I recently installed Plan9 on a DELL Inspiron 4150 notebook, 1.8GHz/ 1GB/40GiB after testing it under QEMU. For setting up networking, I issued the following commands:

Re: [9fans] Visual font viewer

2009-03-30 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Frederic Bonfanti wrote: > In May 2003, I did some tools to download ALL Unicode Glyphs (.gif), > process them and create the relevent font files. > > The result is somehow ``ugly" :) although the only existing solution > if you wanted to visualize any unicode glyp

Re: [9fans] getting message need /sys/man/2/genrandom

2009-03-30 Thread erik quanstrom
> term% pull > post... > c sys/man/2/rand > a sys/man/2/genrandom 664 sys sys 1196638940 > c 386/lib/ape/libap.a > c sys/src/boot/pc/ether82563.c > term% man genrandom > need /sys/man/2/genrandom > term% man genrandom > need /sys/man/2/genrandom that is very strange. "need $x" is printed when tes

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Anthony Sorace
to ron's latest point: seeing it on the G1 would be great, too. but we have a student with an iPhone who's said he'd like to do it, and at least a handful of people here have said they'd like to see it, and have the device. if the same conditions get met for the G1, i see no reason we wouldn't ente

Re: [9fans] Visual font viewer

2009-03-30 Thread erik quanstrom
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Frederic Bonfanti > wrote: > > In May 2003, I did some tools to download ALL Unicode Glyphs (.gif), > > process them and create the relevent font files. > > > > The result is somehow ``ugly" :) although the only existing solution > > if you wanted to visualize an

[9fans] GSoC: 3 days left for student applications

2009-03-30 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: There's just over 3 days left for student applications. We've got a few very nice applications in so far, but would love to see plenty more. If you're considering submitting an application, I'd encourage you to do so. If you're unsure about some aspect, come hang out in #plan9-gsoc on irc.fr

[9fans] UTF and the preprocessor

2009-03-30 Thread hugo rivera
Hi there, I just found out that the preprocessor on plan 9 doesn't like utf. I hope I am wrong, but just try to compile something like # include # include # define ΓVAL 12 void main(void); void main() { int β; β = ΓVAL; while(β < 15) print("%d\n", β++)

Re: [9fans] UTF and the preprocessor

2009-03-30 Thread andrey mirtchovski
until somebody gives you a proper explanation of this you can use the ansi C preprocessor (-p) to compile this particular code. e.g: % 8c -p t.c; 8l t.8 % 8.out 12 13 14 % cat t.c #include #include #define ΓVAL 12 ...

Re: [9fans] fossil caching venti errors

2009-03-30 Thread Pavel Klinkovsky
> md5sum: error reading /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/boot/pc/ether82563.c: venti > i/o error or wrong score, block 72804bdc64d1a772cd4b2eaeda6f1e1b8f175b21 I have got similar problem with 'pull'. And the last update even ruined binaries of NDB... :-( Pavel

Re: [9fans] UTF and the preprocessor

2009-03-30 Thread erik quanstrom
others more qualified may disagree, but in this case i think an enum would be preferred. however, there are some cases where an enum will not do. for example, #define prγ(γ, fmt, ...) if(γ >1.) print(fmt, __VA_ARGS__) i think that this patch will do the trick. i continued the assumption that the

Re: [9fans] fossil caching venti errors

2009-03-30 Thread lucio
> never mind. i think it's not a sign of the problem we were discussing, > but possibly something is simply down. Then the error message needs some tidying up. It happened to me too and coincided with a total failure for "replica". Sigh! ++L

Re: [9fans] fossil caching venti errors

2009-03-30 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Mar 30 15:10:25 EDT 2009, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > never mind. i think it's not a sign of the problem we were discussing, > > but possibly something is simply down. > > Then the error message needs some tidying up. It happened to me too > and coincided with a total failure for "repl

[9fans] Latest pull killed my server

2009-03-30 Thread vmhaas
All - I have been running an all-in-one server on a VMware server virtual machine on my Windows laptop. After executing a 'pull' this morning, the server crashed and I have not been able to revive it. Fortunately it was a playground so little of value is missing, but I thougt I should ask . . .

Re: [9fans] Latest pull killed my server

2009-03-30 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Mar 30 17:28:36 EDT 2009, vmh...@verizon.net wrote: > All - > I have been running an all-in-one server on a VMware server virtual > machine on my Windows laptop. > After executing a 'pull' this morning, the server crashed and I have not > been able to revive it. Fortunately it was a playgr

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Uriel
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > to ron's latest point: > seeing it on the G1 would be great, too. but we have a student with an > iPhone who's said he'd like to do it, and at least a handful of people > here have said they'd like to see it, and have the device. How many p

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Jack Johnson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Uriel wrote: > How many people can actually claim that they will for certain use such > iphone drawterm? Because the idea of using rio or acme from a > touchscreen doesn't seem very practical to me (to put it very mildly). Is there a similar project that would be

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, sorry if i have missed any prior discussion, but i would like to mention that i am curious about this effort. to me, iphone (or similar device) seems to be an appropriate device that is small enough to be a portable drawterm device (eventually it could become cheaper too). one can quickly co

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote: > hi, > > sorry if i have missed any prior discussion, but i would like to > mention that i am curious about this effort. > > to me, iphone (or similar device) seems to be an appropriate device > that is small enough  to be a porta

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi uriel, i guess i should have revised the mail before sending. i just checked how acme looks in this tool. i didnt try to use all features of acme. i am sure it will have problems. the original post in engadget also says it is not fully ready. this apart, long back when iphone was released, i

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread André Günther
I know it's difficult to argue with you, also because just about every email of you is repeating the same stuff. Now the "VNC might suffice" objection is new and i want to reply to it. Again I am repeating myself here, but obivously there's not other way telling you: The only thing I pers

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Federico G. Benavento
I'm impressed by how the "it'd be nice" position is stronger than "it'd be useful" one. -- Federico G. Benavento