From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200102071704.MAA15671@smtp3.fas.harvard.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, mhtexcollins@austin.rr.com Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie questions. From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:04:02 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ba1c4d0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I am having some fun, but I have some ery basic questions that are prolly documented somewhere. Feel free to point me at em. I am hoping to put together some newbie HOWTOs or something. Please do; see http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9 Why don't ether packets show in the sysload graph or do they mostly, just not here. Is it possible to have that graph on my desktop and if so, how? Why doesn't d work all the time? I always have to delete a ping and some others in a rc. Nigel answered this briefly; if the program is reading standard input then ctl-d marks end-of-file. Programs that don't prompt for input don't care about ctl-d. On the other hand, delete is like ctl-c in Windows/Linux. It sends an interrupt to the program. Is there some tests for my keyboard and mouse to make sure they work corectly? (I suspect that is why acme doesn't work properly.) What's there to test? What's not working properly? We have occasional mouse problems; keyboard problems are not as common. How does everyone else partition the drive and why? I partition the drive the way disk/fdisk -a suggests: you need a little space for the 9fat boot partition, perhaps some space for swap, and the rest can go to the file system. Russ