[9fans] Printing from the sky catalogue?

2009-10-06 Thread Jorden Mauro
Is there a way to get scat to dump whatever you've plotted so it can be printed? I guess I really mean to ask if plot can be used to print, since that's what scat drives

Re: [9fans] hoc's behaviour, unary operators

2009-10-30 Thread Jorden Mauro
Look under the production for expr in /sys/src/cmd/hoc/hoc.y Looks like the unary plus problem would be a one-line fix. The -- with no space may be harder to fix. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > PS.: While 'bc' is not any better in this, 'maxima' gets it wright. > (Both

[9fans] Plan 9 doesn't boot on a (fairly new) computer

2009-11-23 Thread Jorden Mauro
Here's the hardware: AMD Athlon II X2 245 (64-bit dual core) Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H motherboard One 1.5Tb SATA hard drive, old IDE cdrom The Plan 9 and 9atom liveCDs have the same problem: when the `root is from' prompt appears, nothing happens and the keyboard does not work. The keyboard is no

[9fans] Scanners

2009-11-24 Thread Jorden Mauro
I could only find this thread, which seems a little outdated in this age of USB scanners: http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558813208847&w=2 Has anyone given thought/attempted to getting newer scanners to work on Plan 9? Perhaps the SANE library could be used as a base for something saner (if you'll

Re: [9fans] Scanners

2009-11-25 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:08 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Has anyone given thought/attempted to getting newer scanners to work >> on Plan 9? Perhaps the SANE library could be used as a base for >> something saner (if you'll forgive the pun). > > i thought that was irony.  :-) > > - erik > > Here

Re: [9fans] Scanners

2009-11-25 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Andreas Zell wrote: > On 25 Nov., 13:34, tyap...@gmail.com (Peter A. Cejchan) wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: >> >> > if i understand it right, your scanner is NOT connected directly to a >> > plan9 native box... >> >> > ++pac >>

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2009-11-28 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2009, at 2:28 pm, hiro wrote: > >> It's also very easy to run my toaster diskless. Does this say anything >> about it's elegance or simplicity? I don't remember what my toaster >> has to do with 9p, but nevermind. > > And s

Re: [9fans] grëp (rhymes with creep) and cptmp

2009-11-30 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:32 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > size isn't the real issue.  the real issue is determining what > the ranges are for other than the base character.  if a maps > to [aa'...] and z maps to [zz'...]  it's not clear that [a'-z'] is a > sensible set.  for example what does [e-f

Re: [9fans] grëp (rhymes with creep) and cptmp

2009-11-30 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:00 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> ``unfold turns a character, say ë into the set of >> characters that can be folded to the same base >> character.  so >>        ; unfold ë >>        [eèéêëēĕėęěȅȇȩḕḗḙḛḝẹẻẽếềểễệ]'' >> >> To me, that sounds like [e-f] should be >> >> [eèéêëē

Re: [9fans] Input/output

2009-12-04 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > Why not just highlight the section you want to edit > and then type commands into the ~~sam~~ window? > You can't select more than a screenful with the mouse, and sometimes it easier to use the mouse for large selections than it is to write an x/.

Re: [9fans] Input/output

2009-12-04 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:53 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > i general that's true, but double clicking at the start of a c block (or any > other set of matching delimiters) is a notable exception. Righto, forgot that escape hatch. > > which brings us around to acme.  i was a devoted sam user for > m

Re: [9fans] TeX for Plan 9: a point

2009-12-22 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:00 AM, wrote: > Hello, > > Note (inessential at the moment): the result will be called KerTeX and > not CorTeX since there is a package (one file...) called CorTeX on CTAN. > But KerTeX: take care of the TeX kernel! will do... > > Unless one really really wants to port t

Re: [9fans] remote access to audio devices

2009-12-25 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Dec 25, 2009, at 4:57 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: Java sometimes does turn up trumps where C code struggles on machines which were recently considered powerful. Other examples would be web what? Could be talking about GC? I saw a paper once that described speedups in X11 when hooked u

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2010-01-08 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Patrick Kelly wrote: > On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> * Jorden Mauro wrote: >> >>> The coffee pot runs windows and there is a virus that causes Coffee >>> Denial of Service on it. >> >> T

Re: [9fans] Just one piece o' help.

2010-01-11 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Steve Simon wrote: > I suggest you install Fede's contrib package (a sort of package managment > system), > >        9fs sources >        /n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib > > now you can list packages and install them - see man contri

Re: [9fans] Just one piece o' help.

2010-01-11 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:17 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> > I suggest you install Fede's contrib package (a sort of package managment >> > system), >> > >> >        9fs sources >> >        /n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib >> > >> > now you can list packages and inst

Re: [9fans] Independent study topic

2010-01-20 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Justin Jackson wrote: Hi everyone, I've been lurking for the past few months and I've really enjoyed reading the messages from this list. I'm looking for some ideas or advice---here's the story: I'm pursuing a Master's degree in computer science at a small sc

Re: [9fans] Check out my photos on Facebook

2010-03-03 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM, wrote: >> One moment of inattention turns into mailing list >> infamy. > > So there is nothing wrong with my instincts that say that I should > stay far away from facebook? > > ++L > > You are missing nothing worthwhile.

[9fans] Collaborative Sam?

2010-03-15 Thread Jorden Mauro
How hard would it be to stick a program between a single sam -R and several samterms? I imagine such a program would have to interpret the sam protocol and handle merges and simultaneous updates, but since sam essentially treats files operations as database transactions, it seems like sam's protoco

Re: [9fans] Collaborative Sam?

2010-03-15 Thread Jorden Mauro
single `normal' samterm. I think the fact that sam uses a database-like protocol would make that possible; all the results of the multiplexer's merging and so forth would be presented to the sam -R instance as if they were coming in as protocol messages from a single samterm. > > On

Re: [9fans] Collaborative Sam?

2010-03-15 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Chad Brown wrote: > Have you read ``The Text Editor Sam'', by Rob Pike?   > (http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/) > > A quick re-skim (especially around page 22) or so suggests that you'd want to > look at the code for sam -r, and that you'll want

Re: [9fans] Collaborative Sam?

2010-03-15 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:30 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Jorden Mauro wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:34 AM, David Leimbach >> wrote: >> > I don't know enough about sam's innards to be able to say whet

Re: [9fans] Collaborative Sam?

2010-03-15 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: > if you carry the idea through, i think you'll reinvent > 9p and mount :) Of course, the idea could be done as a 9p file server. However, I think the fact that sam already uses a protocol with database-like semantics woul

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:36 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Gabriel Díaz wrote: >> >> hello >> >> "How do I get my employer to need plan9?" >> >> Given the experiences posted by some of the plan9 inventors in other >> thread, this seems to be an almost impossibl

Re: [9fans] native install

2010-03-25 Thread Jorden Mauro
Someone should put this whole thread on the wiki