Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

2009-03-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
Screenshots, s’il te plaît? ありがとう ak

Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

2009-03-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
I just wanted to see it in a box with blue borders amidst other multi-colored boxes with blue borders, atop the sea of grey. 2009/3/13 Steve Simon : > It just generates a gmap map or satellite image of the place you name, > try http://maps.google.com to see a demo. ak

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

2009-03-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
>> especially if the kernel were (sort-of) pxe loaded so that clients would >> only need a local copy of the loader and changes would then be >> automaticly distributed.) > > Now that could be fun. > I smell the feminine stench -- flowers and butterflies -- of GSoC project proposal in every charac

[9fans] Proposal*: A Cousin for man(1)

2009-06-28 Thread Akshat Kumar
Plan 9 manuals are known to be concise, and most definitely the first source of information for many of us. It is only after consulting the man pages that we go on to further references, which often happen to be more definite or at least in-depth sources of information, such as the papers found in

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

2009-06-28 Thread Akshat Kumar
This seems very much like the Acer Aspire One - both in design and features (and more people seem to have this than the Yeeloong). Do you notice any outstanding differences (other than Linux distrib - Acer runs Linpus, Yeeloong runs one of several choices)? Granted, the Yeeloong has a nice flowery

[9fans] Ken FS: Ethernet Cards

2009-07-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Which Ethernet Cards function with Ken FS? I have only a few options, but I see a passing mention of one of them: fs/pc/etherdp83820.c:1089: /* case (0x1032<<16)|0x1737: /* linksys eg1032 */ But, as can be seen, it's commented out. Has anyone tried Ken FS with this card, or know

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-09 Thread Akshat Kumar
Having seen that video, as well as other examples, I am now more drawn to APL. Any Plan 9 implementations available? ak

[9fans] Plan 9 BoF - Carson, LA

2009-07-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
Any Plan 9 box heads in Carson getting their groove on at the Coldplay concert in the Home Depot Stadium would make for a great BoF meeting. We might discuss audio drivers for Plan 9 so that we can listen to our favourite band(s). And perhaps lyric synthesizing. In all reality, I'd prefer not to di

[9fans] channels across machines

2009-07-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
The idea seems inviting at first, but have you given a thought to using plumber(4) for "interprocess messaging" (which is what you want, from what I understand)? This seems more appropriate for communication amongst processes alien to one another than something so code-level like a chan extension.

Re: [9fans] Woes of New Language Support

2009-07-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
> what is the total number of stealth characters like nsa? > if it'not too unreasonable, it might be good enough to steal part of > the operating system or application reserved areas. Any consonant should be able to become a half-consonant, but only when followed by another consonant. In the TTF m

Re: [9fans] installation on SATYA disk failed

2009-07-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
Geoff, Please do not kill the floppy install option. I have a few computers that are not able to boot from CD, but can do so from floppy. I think the few people that do like to run Plan 9 natively, like myself, perhaps do so on older computers where this is likely the case. do it for the make

Re: [9fans] Woes of New Language Support

2009-07-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
Please disregard the question, "kbmap perhaps?" in my last post. I quickly realised that kbmap is only for inputs, while I'm discussing plain old output from every other source. partying too much ak

Re: [9fans] binary sprint format

2009-08-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
> #include "u.h" > #include "../port/lib.h" > #include "mem.h" > #include "dat.h" > #include "fns.h" Perhaps libc.h? ak

[9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-14 Thread Akshat Kumar
Wonderful, yes, it would be to print papers from my HP Officejet 5610 through my Plan 9 computers. However, the printer reads only HP's (proprietary?) PDL, called PCL (Printer Command Language)[1][2]. Viz., it does not understand Postscript. Any suggestions on getting Plan 9 to print on this? Bes

Re: [9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-14 Thread Akshat Kumar
It seems the product specs page previously mentioned is out-of-date. This[1][2] one mentions LIDIL as the standard language, not PCL 3. Which perhaps makes things even more difficult. dying hopes of young lads, ak P.S.: I don't know anything about LIDIL. [1] http://ln-s.net/3uhn "Print driver

Re: [9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-14 Thread Akshat Kumar
gs(1) compiled fine with ijs driver - I hope it doesn't need to be updated as well. Thanks for the information, Russ. I found Prof. Okamoto's page on HPIJS 1.5 port: http://basalt.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp/plan9/s54.html (binaries linked). I'll look into the degree of changes made for the port. If it'

Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Akshat Kumar
> For Lisp variants ask Alex Shinn(alexsh...@gmail.com), he's got an > interesting scheme implementation mostly working. It's a summer of > code project this year. See also my post: http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2009/07/19/0/ and the included link to setting it up on Plan 9. Best, ak

Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming

2009-08-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
Speaking of fonts in Acme, using the default, I spent extra amount of time tracking down a bug in my gs(1) source, which was the mix-up between -lijs and -Iijs. Apparently 'I' is shorter than 'l' by some portion of a pixel. how could I possibly miss that ak P.S.: This isn't Acme's fault - it's t

Re: [9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
> However, I think you need the ijs > driver, which is not built by default (it probably should be). > To enable it, edit /sys/src/cmd/gs/mkfile to add ijs to the > device list and then rebuild using the instructions in the > mkfile. I thought I'd built gs(1) this way with proper ijs support, but

Re: [9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
I appreciate the suggestions, and I'll definitely look into them when upgrades are in order. Making do with what we have, however, I can now successfully conversate with the printer, and initiate the print. But there is a problem: after the first line of output from the printer on the page, usb/p

Re: [9fans] HP: Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
Too bad I didn't initially try this, but if I send a print right after the timeout, I can get the whole print. The next time I want to print, however, I have to go through the same thing. So, a wasted paper for every print. Would still be great to not have the issue at all. ak

[9fans] Awakening the Dormant and Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
I've been looking into the tools of Research UNIX versions 7 and 8 and 4.2BSD, as well as other old utilities that we may still find useful. So, with the sources at hand of most such programs, I've started porting some to native Plan 9. As the ports are completed, I'll make them available in /n/sou

Re: [9fans] Awakening the Dormant and Printing with the Illiterate

2009-08-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
> make sure you teach cat(1) the -v flag. that should make some people > very happy and will widely be regarded as a good move ;) Research UNIX version 8 has vis(1) -- the not-so-harmful. ak

[9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
... on Acer Aspire One to add more fun. Yes, on the Acer Aspire One, I have no means to compile, with all hopes of GCC thwarted by the draconian schemes of archaic Linux package managers, all slowly drowning in dependency hell. But enough fantasising -- No GCC, no kernel sources (which are presum

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
Upon Steve's suggestion, I enabled *nodumpstack=1 in the PXE config for the Plan 9 in QEMU. The result follows: ... password: ! time... panic: boot process died: sys: demand load I/O error accessing /386/init: mount rpc error panic: boot process died: sys: demand load I/O error accessing /386/init

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
And here's another piece to the puzzle that I just noticed: on the Ken FS server, I see the following: il: allocating il!192.168.1.20!50738 hangup! connection timed out-3 50738/192.168.1.20.17008 where 192.168.1.20 is the IP of the Plan 9 instance inside QEMU. So, at least a connection is initia

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
Thank you for your input, Erik. I haven't yet gotten to replacing Ken FS proper with your version, though I soon hope to do so (I'd need to figure out how to boot it, as your version has problems with floppies - and I can only floppy boot). Preferably in a fashion that I can keep my current data. Y

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
This time with just flag authdebug and without going through secstore, since it gave me the problem highlighted above, plain auth from the QEMU host gives the following at Ken FS: il: allocating ... user akumar = 2 authenticated authorize: uid is 2 authorize: uid is 2 hangup! connection timed out-

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 via QEMU

2009-08-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
> i also see it trying to auth bootes (i think). > do you have a user bootes? Yes, bootes is the hostowner of the CPU/Auth server. I've got a QEMU image that was distributed by Devon, so I could at least try to get into Plan 9 inside QEMU and try to connect to Ken FS server from there. I'm still

[9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
I'm using cwfs(4) for my external harddisks attached to my CPU server. Is there any service like /srv/fscons, to which I can connect with con(1) and get the same console as with running cwfs normally? And along the same lines, a way to "daemonize" cwfs? Then I wouldn't always have to have a separa

Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
Erik wrote: > this is a 5-minute hack.  there are probablly > better ways of doing this, but > >        srv -e '' cwfs >        con -C /srv/cwfs > > to escape, it's like acme ctl-\ then return. Anthony wrote: > not directly. on my server running cwfs, i have this in /cfg//cpustart: >        srv -e

[9fans] Kernel compile in Linuxemu

2009-08-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
Since I can't compile anything - let alone a kernel - in my Acer Aspire One, I decided to try compiling one under Linuxemu, with the hopes that I could then copy the resulting kernel modules back to the Acer and make use of them here. However, 'make' under Linuxemu fails as such: r...@sounine:/us

Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
I'll use this thread to post further questions about cwfs. I recently had a problem accessing a directory in a drive managed by cwfs - whenever I tried to access the dir, I got the error: ...: phase error -- cannot happen so I went over to the cwfs console and played around with `clean': fs: clea

Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
So, I found the files I lost in an older dump. Is there any way I can load them from the dump into the cache without having to copy them back? I know bind is an option, but something more permanent would be better in this case. ak

Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
> if you are simply left with a directory that's been > deleted. maybe something else is going on? Perhaps. The harddisk is a FreeAgent Seagate, connected via USB. It used to go into sleep mode every 15 minutes and I would often have to restart cwfs - this is probably cause for a lot of damage.

Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-24 Thread Akshat Kumar
I believe there may be an inconsistency somewhere in the dump records themselves. When I tried to copy back the file from the dump, into the active fs, after a while of copying, cwfs panicked with: main grow ... tag = 5/23; expected 757/7 -- not flushed panic: cwio: checktag c bucket halted ..

Re: [9fans] Using cwfs

2009-08-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
> this sounds like a bug in usb/disk. usb/disk should be > able to handle a sleeping drive without passing i/o > errors up. That's probably a USB issue, yes. However, now, I've setup my drive not to go into sleep mode at all, but I see the following from earlier today: ... 89806 blocks queued fo

Re: [9fans] Kernel compile in Linuxemu

2009-08-27 Thread Akshat Kumar
> fixed, try the latest version from sources. Wunderbar! Thank you, Cinap. There are still quite a few "missing syscalls", but these are just warning messages during compile (by the same script). If you like, I can give you the messages, but I presume you've already acknowledged this. I've now b

[9fans] 9 Games of Go

2009-08-31 Thread Akshat Kumar
With the hopes of playing Go amongst fellow Plan 9 users, I've written a little filesystem[1] which can currently be used for any two-player turn-based games. I'm currently working on Paurea's wonderful goban code, to implement support for reading from and writing to files, so that we have a worki

Re: [9fans] 9 Games of Go

2009-08-31 Thread Akshat Kumar
> It might be worth the effort to implement Go Text Protocol > (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/), just in case you're having > trouble finding people to play with. No, I'm going for world domination. Starting with the local Go group. The fileserver is meant for Plan 9 communications, and i

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-03 Thread Akshat Kumar
Greg Comeau wrote: [... stuff ...] These four posts seem to be in indirect conversation with Charles Forsyth's, "one thing that gets me is that i've had people fulminate about the few minor changes in Plan 9's C compilers, because `they are not standard'" Perhaps he can further elaborate. a

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-05 Thread Akshat Kumar
> http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html "Programming languages are just tools, after all." Considering that Plan 9 has only two inherent languages, and its users often push for work to be done in only those, what is the Plan 9 perspective of languages and tools in relation to each other? Is it in a

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-07 Thread Akshat Kumar
>>Considering that Plan 9 has only two inherent languages, >>and its users often push for work to be done in only those, >>what is the Plan 9 perspective of languages and tools in >>relation to each other? >>Is it in agreement with this statement? > > It's certainly true that cultures and mindsets

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-09 Thread Akshat Kumar
> anyone written any software recently? > at this point it probably doesn't matter whether it was for plan 9 or not. I'll plug, like the conniving commercialist I be: /n/sources/contrib/akumar/α/gofs Interfaces coming soon. ak

Re: [9fans] Chaucer on 9fans

2009-09-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
There's a thread by yy about additions to Acme. It contains code, which could be made better given the appropriate feedback and time. It's also useful and not ridiculous. ak

[9fans] Unable to find South Bridge

2009-09-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
I have an Intel P55C MMX (233 MHz), with the same problem as that given here: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/02/858 However, I'm trying to boot off the Plan 9 CD, and don't currently have a way of compiling a kernel with the suggested changes (or booting from it). (Also, I think those changes are p

[9fans] Authoritative Name Server

2009-09-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
I'm trying to setup an authoritative name server for a domain in Plan 9. Not all of the available ndb(6) directives for this task are documented, so I have some questions: The secondary name servers all run BIND on UNIX, and I need to do zone transfers to them, from Plan 9. Will simple zone transf

Re: [9fans] Authoritative Name Server

2009-09-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
Thanks, Erik. > i wouldn't bother breaking up the zones if there's no > particular adminstative reason to do so. I have MX records that pertain only to certain subdomains. In BIND speak: mail.example.com MX 1 mx.server.com so, in this case, I suppose I would need a separate dom= block for mail.ex

Re: [9fans] Authoritative Name Server

2009-09-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
I've got the basic setup going, and have tested it for appropriate information using ndb/dnsquery in Plan 9 (on the same computer that is running `ndb/dns -rns`). > looks like it should work. if you should need an bind-comptable > zone file (and i do), contrib quanstro/ndbtozone is a program that

Re: [9fans] Authoritative Name Server

2009-09-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
Further testing shows that the problem is with my srv entries. Is it my ndb configuration, or just a problem with ndb/dns? Here's the portion that causes the above problem (if uncommented) with a zone transfer using dig on Linux: #dom=_jabber._tcp.mail.nanosouffle.net # srv=xmpp-server.l.goo

Re: [9fans] Authoritative Name Server

2009-09-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
Thanks. This is all fine, now. The remaining problem is regarding my earlier post about SRV records. Using ndb/dnsquery, I get proper output: cpu% ndb/dnsquery > _jabber._tcp.mail.nanosouffle.net srv _jabber._tcp.mail.nanosouffle.net srv 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com _jabber._tcp.mail.nanos

Re: [9fans] Authoritative Name Server

2009-09-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
> Is ns1 the Plan9 master? What do the zone files on the BIND slave look like? > I.e. did the SRV entries transfer correctly? Yes, ns1 is the Plan 9 master. The zone file has not yet been transferred, for some reason. I'm running `ndb/dns -rns` and have run `echo refresh >/net/cs` each time I've u

Re: [9fans] Authoritative Name Server

2009-09-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
I thought it'd have something to do with source. Thanks very much, Erik! The SRV entries don't pose a problem with dig, now. Best, ak On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:40 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > try this patch > > /n/dump/2009/0916/sys/src/cmd/ndb/convDNS2M.c:260,266 - convDNS2M.c:260,270 >

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
> What I was referring to was Plan 9's ability > (or lack thereof) to decode and play digital video codecs. Just one of those > things that prevent someone from running only Plan 9 on their computers -- > you need one of the big 3 for web browser + video. With Cinap Lenrek's work on linuxemu, one

Re: [9fans] 9 Games of Go

2009-09-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
I've made updates to gofs[1], documented in NOTES. Goban[2] is a graphical interface to gofs, for playing the game of Go with a partner, or just by oneself. The original goban was written by Gorka, and I've made quite a few changes to it, to be able to play from gofs. Usage: Simply running `gofs

Re: [9fans] 9 Games of Go

2009-09-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
Quick update: -r flag has been added to goban, to simply watch ongoing games. Further updates will probably go in a man page that I haven't yet created. Just so I don't spam 9fans. Best, ak

[9fans] HTTP forwarding with aux/trampoline

2009-09-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
'httpserver' is a server on a remote connection from where the following is run: aux/listen1 tcp!*!80 aux/trampoline tcp!httpserver!442 where httpserver is running httpd that listens on port 442. All is well, until it comes time for data transfer exceeding 1666 bytes (images and any other file, r

Re: [9fans] HTTP forwarding with aux/trampoline

2009-09-27 Thread Akshat Kumar
> First, if you are not using hget to fetch the URL in question, > use hget. That eliminates the browser. I've tried with wget in the httpserver network. That's how I got the 1666 bytes value. > Second, if you run > > aux/listen1 tcp!*!80 rc -c 'sleep 1; cat /lib/words' > > can you use con -l tc

[9fans] usb/print problem since last update

2009-10-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
Last time I played with printing, was quite a while before the last update to usb/print (apparently Sep. 25). And stuff worked back then. Here's the output now: cpu% usb/print usb/print: startdevs: opening #0 /dev/usb/ep7.0 usb/print: /dev/usb/ep7.0: config: d2h data too large to fit in uhci usb/

Re: [9fans] usb/print problem since last update

2009-10-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
I haven't updated the kernels. Will do. Furrthamoa... With the old usb/print (and the old kernel stuff), I get this each time I try to print: cat: write error copying /tmp/pdf178624: request timed out and there seems to be no way of shaking it. Was this perhaps addressed in the latest kernel and

Re: [9fans] usb/print problem since last update

2009-10-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
I haven't been able to test printing yet, but with the new Kernel and tools, my terminal needs to be rebooted each time I disconnect and reconnect the printer USB (or turn printer on/off, of course). usb/print otherwise just says "no devices found". On the other hand, regardless of however many reb

Re: [9fans] usb/print problem since last update

2009-10-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
It turns out, the problem was just a shoddy USB port. Using another one, printer works fine. Also, the old timeout bug is no longer there. Thanks for your fine work and all the tasty fish, Francisco. Best, ak

[9fans] fmt(1) standard behaviour

2009-10-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
As it stands, if not specified a file, fmt(1) takes input from stdin. In doing so, it waits for EOF before outputting the formatted lines. I haven't looked into the code, but I suppose it was left this way due to simplicity (from basic file handling). However, I doubt fmt(1) is used interactively e

[9fans] utf-8 text files from httpd

2009-10-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
I'm trying to put up a plain text file containing UTF-8 characters from httpd, but when viewing it from any browser, it comes off as an ASCII file that needs to be downloaded (so, those characters are garbled). Is this due to some behaviour of httpd? ak

Re: [9fans] utf-8 text files from httpd

2009-10-19 Thread Akshat Kumar
new/sendfd.c:243 c old/sendfd.c:243 < --- > /* new/sendfd.c:246 c old/sendfd.c:246 < --- > */ (context: text/plain -> text/plain; charset=utf-8) Now my text files can be read in the proper encoding by default, and are not interpreted by browsers (as well as certain applications) to be whack ASCII

Re: [9fans] quote of the day

2009-12-25 Thread Akshat Kumar
So... mm... Where's the working AMD 64 port again? oh, ok ak On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > it doesn't work, it doesn't have to, and it's secret! > > perfect documentation for shitware. > > brucee >

Re: [9fans] 9vx crash

2009-12-27 Thread Akshat Kumar
Grab newer release with lots of fixes from 0.12, from mercurial repo at http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/vx32/ and compile (see README.*). Best, ak > On 27 Dec 2009, at 2:48 am, Marina Brown wrote: > >> Hi All: >> >> I was experimenting with 9vx tonight and it crashed on me. I did the >> followin

Re: [9fans] Announcing: writable /proc/pid/ns

2010-01-02 Thread Akshat Kumar
> can you give an example of a use of this feature that can't be > accomplished by plumbing "Local 9fs $server"? Wanting to provide access to sources repo or data on external hdd, to a program running in background (say, httpd), where the connection to the respective server has recently gone down.

Re: [9fans] faces

2010-01-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Brian! Your computer thinks your face is harmful! another one for cat-v On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, wrote: > from postmas...@vx32: > The following attachment had content that we can't > prove to be harmless.  To avoid possible automatic > execution, we changed the content headers. > The ori

Re: [9fans] Hardware for Plan9

2010-01-11 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Frederik Caulier wrote: > Hello Wolfgang > > You might want to get in touch with user 'Capso' on the > #pl...@irc.freenode.org channel. AFAIK he is running a Ken FS setup. > > Best regards, > F. Caulier That's just me. Feel free to drop me a mail or visit IRC. I

Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem

2010-01-12 Thread Akshat Kumar
>From the inspections of Cinap and I, albeit a while back, Erik's FS does not take NVR from floppy. That's why Erik suggested that you create a small 9fat partition (using the Plan 9 Install/Boot CD) on your primary master HDD and put the NVR on that. I suppose you should also be able to put the re

Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem

2010-01-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Wolfgang Kunz wrote: > Many thanks for your answer. I try to find an old IDE harddrive > or so. > > Would a IDE-Flash module works too? These modules are not expensive The Ken FS (including Erik's version) hardware support is much more limited than that of Plan 9

Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem

2010-01-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: > So is it worth it to try to nail down a driver that can talk to at > least some of the on-motherboard NVRAM present on today's crop of > x86/amd64 motherboards? Our mileages vary: I don't see the problem in my floppy or a

Re: [9fans] Hardware for Plan9

2010-01-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
Hi Matt, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:49 AM, matt wrote: > >> >> I'm running the traditional Ken FS, sans Erik's mods. >> > > "sans" is French for "without" hence serif & sans-serif, is that what you > meant ? Yes. Erik's observations are also correct (it's "Geoff's reform 63-bitized version").

[9fans] Abaco's Plumbing

2010-01-14 Thread Akshat Kumar
In trying to access some papers in PDF, locked up by secure login and what not over the web two point oh-no, I was stuck at the actual "access the paper" part. After login, there is a link to a page that forwards to the URL of the PDF. In order to access, you need some cookies that show you've log

Re: [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing

2010-01-14 Thread Akshat Kumar
> why can't you just use webfsget? > > - erik Yes, webfsget works fine to grab the file after I use abaco to log in. I wasn't aware of such a thing as webfsget. Apologies on my part for the ignorance. Thanks, ak

Re: [9fans] Now with authentication

2010-01-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
Hi Newsham, Is OpenSSL necessary for authenticating to 9P servers? Currently, I get a "failed to mount ...: <22> botch" error when trying to authenticate. Also, is it necessary to compile ninefs with OpenSSL, or will the pre-compiled binary find and use c:\openssl if it's there? Thanks, ak On T

Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

2010-01-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
naah, let's use arrow keys to print arrows; there's nothing more literal, and thus reasonable, than that or, or, here's another rationalisation of some other obtuse usage... nvm ak On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Yi DAI wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Plan9. This request sounds quite simple/nai

Re: [9fans] man 6 authsrv

2010-01-24 Thread Akshat Kumar
why not just use the arrow symbol directly, in the troff file? On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:11 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > does anyone know why the → A is just missing > from the output unless the output is non-text? > i haven't had time to get to the bottom of this. > > - erik > > context: > > The

[9fans] partial cp

2010-01-24 Thread Akshat Kumar
I was copying a 1.75G file via drawterm, when the computer went to sleep around 1.16G of the way through. The copy was being done by fcp. I presume fcp, like cp, copies from start to finish, so what are some suggested ways to copy just the rest of the file, without starting all over? I'd like to b

Re: [9fans] partial cp

2010-01-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > hget does something similar, don't know, I'll usually > just restart copying the file. that's a little much in this case (big file, going over the local network) > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, maht wrote: >> If you're going to

[9fans] 'win' execution behaviour in acme

2010-01-30 Thread Akshat Kumar
Executing this block of text: win -e cmd1 args ... win -e cmd2 args ... win -e cmd3 args ... win -e cmd4 args ... opens up *one* acme window with the first of the `win' commands. Once you `Del' that win, the second one appears, and so forth. But the behaviour I would expect is that I get four sep

Re: [9fans] 'win' execution behaviour in acme

2010-01-30 Thread Akshat Kumar
OK, yeah. I lost myself in the complexities of empty-headed programming. Thanks much, ak On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Tony Lainson wrote: > Put an '&' on the end of each line? > >

Re: [9fans] In case anyone worries about block hash collision in

2010-02-07 Thread Akshat Kumar
The case of intentional collisions is stronger than that of accidental collisions. If one were to worry about the former with regards to ROT-13, then the idea would be discarded before the latter ever became an issue. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: >>> Se

Re: [9fans] importing mailboxes

2008-12-29 Thread Akshat Kumar
> Anyway, my problem is this. I am away from my server, about 2,000 > miles away to be exact. Right now, I am using cpu and mail(1) > to read my email, but I'd rather use acme Mail. Within Acme, you can run a 'Local import ...' and/or 'Local bind ...' -- depending upon your import/bind situation -

[9fans] grap(1) man bug; of little importance

2009-01-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
The EXAMPLES section of `man 1 grap' contains an "extra paste" error: `.G1' marks the start of a graph description and `.G2' the end -- everything in the middle has been re-pasted after the `.G2'. In short: remove lines grap(1):138 through grap(1):150 ak

[9fans] couple of scripts - specific tasks

2009-01-02 Thread Akshat Kumar
Largely useless scripts that'll perhaps save someone a few minutes or at least a few keystrokes -- they've been done with simplicity, not conciseness or efficiency, in mind. No usage info (fn) is provided. convo/fmt is to be used with "generic" IRC logs like the one produced by andrey's irc7 (wh

Re: [9fans] couple of scripts - specific tasks

2009-01-02 Thread Akshat Kumar
Oh, you're right -- I noticed Kill lingering around, a while back, but didn't look into it. chkill is more lazy than Kill it seems Thanks --- Begin Message --- > chkill is a kill(1) equivalent for processes being run by, i.e., none > -- to be used by hostowner > it made restarting httpd happen in

Re: [9fans] grap(1) man bug; of little importance

2009-01-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
Ah! But I think troff or a preprocessor threw errors at me, for having that bit (well, it was the only problem I could see, or now remember). ak --- Begin Message --- On Thu Jan 1 22:02:44 EST 2009, aku...@sounine.nanosouffle.net wrote: > The EXAMPLES section of `man 1 grap' contains an "extra pa

Re: [9fans] devtrace scripts

2009-01-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
Did you mean to attach the tarball with your mail? Or are we to find them somewhere else? ak --- Begin Message --- I forgot to put these out earlier; I wrote a bunch of scripts that should help with the processing of devtrace output. They're what I used to make the plots in the paper. Just unpa

[9fans] mkindex of dict(7)

2009-01-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
In its current state, /sys/src/cmd/dict/mkindex suicides if /lib/dict/oed2 is not present and '-d' option is not specified (along with the dict name) -- fix: move /sys/src/cmd/dict/mkindex:57 to after /sys/src/cmd/dict/mkindex:62 (that is, place the Bseek after the conditional on Bo

Re: [9fans] mkindex of dict(7)

2009-01-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
/sys/src/cmd/dict/dict.c states: /* * Assumed index file structure: lines of form * [^\t]+\t[0-9]+ * First field is key, second is byte offset into dictionary. * Should be sorted with args -u -t'' +0f -1 +0 -1 +1n -2 */ whereas, /sys/src/cmd/dict/mkindex outputs: i.e., 0 ヽ

Re: [9fans] mkindex of dict(7)

2009-01-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
/sys/src/cmd/dict/dict.c states: /* * Assumed index file structure: lines of form * [^\t]+\t[0-9]+ * First field is key, second is byte offset into dictionary. * Should be sorted with args -u -t'' +0f -1 +0 -1 +1n -2 */ whereas, /sys/src/cmd/dict/mkindex outputs: i.e., 0 ヽ

Re: [9fans] mkindex of dict(7)

2009-01-05 Thread Akshat Kumar
Regarding the dict index files, what I understand is that dict(7) receives a pattern (may also be a byte offset or whatever, but suppose pattern), looks it up in the first fields of the lines in the dict index, and uses the corresponding byte offset in the index to find the full line in the dict fi

Re: [9fans] mkindex of dict(7)

2009-01-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
... > You need to sort your index file. Aha! This was exactly the problem! > Looks like dict(7) is doing binary > search on it. After sorted, it works fine. > Indeed. > fhs > Thanks, ak

[9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
Certain applications have been blessed with 9fans' ignorance for too long. dict(7) and friends seemed to be becoming over-joyous. For those interested in Japanese on Plan 9, I provide here (edict2.tar) scripts to convert Jim Breen's extended Japanese dictionary, EDICT2, to a format usable with dic

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-16 Thread Akshat Kumar
the subject header in the last message came out to be very ugly due to GMail's default encoding. now using Unicode sorry ak

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
Regarding nadict (the rc scripted Acme interface to dict(7)), for those interested, I plan to add the remaining "Next", "Prev", and "Nmatch" functionalities as found in adict. Of the brief trials I did with this, it seemed to get messy. Although there is already an ircfs for Inferno, since I don't

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-19 Thread Akshat Kumar
hiro: > Yeah, I think your arguments make perfectly sense. > I would still be interested to know whether Akshat had the same > thoughts in mind:) I have great affinity for everything Plan 9 -- from the superficial interface to the depths of its methodology (although, I was recently dumped by venti

Re: [9fans] Les Mis?rables

2009-01-19 Thread Akshat Kumar
2009/1/18 jimmy brisson : ... > When did supporting Atheros wireless cards stop being a solution? > > As a High School senior, I have tons of time on my hands, but very > little experince. > Therefore, I am could be handed the sorce for a working wifi driver > and replicate it for > Atheros based c

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