Re: [9fans] toys

Re: [9fans] toys

[Russ Cox]

	which *.font files are those?

The ones that weren't in the archive, of course.
Now they are.

Russ

Re: [9fans] toys

[rog]

in the xword README, you say:
> To run it, you need to cp *.font /lib/font/bit/times

which *.font files are those?

BTW, even without them it looks nice and works really smoothly - i like
it!

i must get hold of a CDROM drive so i can try out the CD player. other
than Mail, there have been far too few acme-based user interfaces; i'm
glad to see another one, even if i can't use it. :-)  (trouble with
importing the CD device from the cpu server is that the headphone
socket is also over there, and that's not quite so easy to import!)

  cheers,
    rog.

[9fans] toys

[Russ Cox]

i just posted a crossword player (xword.tar.gz)
and an acme cd player (acd.tar.gz) at
www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/plan9.html.

the crossword player is just fun to use.
a converter for across lite puzzles is included.

the cd player serves a need (at least for me),
but is also (imho) a neat example of how clean some 
programs can get when you use communicating
processes to your advantage, and of how much
acme does for you.  i really like that because it runs
under acme, you get playlist editing for free
(from the readme):

	A window with a track list will appear, with
	tracks named Track 1, Track 2, etc.:
		1/ Track 1
		2/ Track 2
	If they can be found in the freedb.org CD database,
	real track names will replace the boring
	ones before long.
	
	To start playing a track, right click the number
	at the left of the line.

	A "> " marks the currently playing track.
	When that track finishes, acd plays the track
	on the next line.  This means you can edit
	the window as though it were a play list.
	
	If the next line is "repeat", acd will start again
	at the first song listed in the window.

enjoy.
russ