Re: [9fans] Bug in print(2) g verb

2013-02-28 Thread Paul A. Patience
Without the change, it should get any example wrong. This is with native Plan 9, though. Plan9port's fltfmt.c is not the same, so it must be working correctly. term% cat foo.c #include #include void main(void) { print("%.5g\n", 12345.67890); exits(nil); } term% 8.out 12345.7

Re: [9fans] Bug in print(2) g verb

2013-03-01 Thread Paul A. Patience
Plan9port's implementation of fltfmt.c seems different enough to me that it isn't possible to simply take the fix from there and add it to plan9. Perhaps I'm missing something. The g verb already acts differently in plan9port and native plan 9: print("%g\n", 0.1) prints .1 in plan 9 and 0.1 in pla

Re: [9fans] Bug in print(2) g verb

2013-03-03 Thread Paul A. Patience
I would also like it if %g acted the same in plan9 as everywhere else (printing 0.1 instead of .1 in my example). That's also really easy to change. It doesn't make sense for plan9port's %g to be different from plan9, because now you cannot even count on both prints to work the same way. Since pri

Re: [9fans] Bug in print(2) g verb

2013-03-03 Thread Paul A. Patience
I would also like it if %g acted the same in plan9 as everywhere else (printing 0.1 instead of .1 in my example). That's also really easy to change. It doesn't make sense for plan9port's %g to be different from plan9, because now you cannot even count on both prints to work the same way. Since pri

Re: [9fans] doing a native awk port (was Re: Bug in print(2) g verb)

2013-03-03 Thread Paul A. Patience
I am actually the one who asked bwk for his test suite, which he later put on github. I started with some gawk tests while waiting for the test suite, however. As for plan9's awk, it runs on ape. I am trying to make it run without ape. I had thought of starting with the latest version of awk, but

Re: [9fans] sam on Windows?

2013-06-10 Thread Paul A. Patience
Brian Vito wrote: > What is the current status of sam on Windows? Does anyone have a > version that runs under Windows 7? The one from http://ib.wmipf.de/pf9.html > doesn't seem to work anymore. Thanks very much. > latest version is here: https://bitbucket.org/knieriem/pf9/downloads i haven't

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image

2013-06-28 Thread Paul A. Patience
Terry Wendt wrote: > Thank you for your response erik. The machine I'm trying to boot this > on is an "old" dell inspiron 530. 9front runs fine on my dell inspiron 530. i have to boot it with *acpi= in plan9.ini, though. pap

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-28 Thread Paul A . Patience
did you enable *acpi= when booting 9front? see the section Boot at [1]. pap [1] http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/troubleshooting