From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:23:35 +1000
From: Peter Allworth petera@magna.com.au
Subject: does Inferno run under Plan9 on a mips magnum 3000?
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forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk wrote:
>
> i have successfully run Inferno on at least the following configurations:

I can also confirm from a colleague that it runs under Windows 95.

> i successfully ran the web browser guido on all platforms.
> i was careful to follow instructions and ensure that the inferno
> bin was in my path/PATH variable which i ensured was also exported
> (done automatically by rc even on Unix, but i also told the Bourne shell to do it).
> when i deliberately did not follow the instructions and ensured
> that the appropriate Inferno bin directory was NOT in my path,
> guido reasonably complained of a webget protocol error
> since #C/cmd couldn't find the webget binary.

I assure you that I deliberately DID follow the instructions, printed
immediately after I downloaded the binary, and here in front of me...

"Starting up on Unix-like Systems
...
It would be useful to make a symbolic link or shell script referring
to the appropriate instance of emu with desired options."

The word "path" appears once in the document, in the last sentence
of the "Starting up on Windows (95 or NT)" section and in another
context.

I should note that I'm not being mischievous, I'm just giving a hint
of how someone not steeped in the Unix/Plan9/Brazil methodology (and,
by-the-way, I am) might react to a release like this. Yes, I'm playing
devil's advocate, if you'll pardon the pun, but I think it's important.

The world desperately needs a network file protocol that isn't a rehash
of NFS or SMB, and Styx/9P is clearly the way to go. But it's not
going to be taken seriously unless there is at least the appearance that
Lucent's full corporate weight is behind it.
Unfortunately, that's not the way it looks at the moment.
Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now.

> just a thought, but have you applied the OpenWindows Jumbo patches
> and the several other Jumbo patches on the Solaris 2.5 release CD?
> Solaris is erratic (even for Solaris) without it.

You're right, my Solaris 2.5 is "out of the box". I'll give it a try.

Many thanks for your prompt reply,

PeterA.