i have a laptop here running plan9.. i'm quite happy with it most of the time and
i'm not happy with it when it hangs during window resize (when running p9 locally)..

i suspected the vga driver so i wrote a small graphical program to see if it will force
it to hang by displaying lines on the screen over and over again. i indeed succeeded
in crashing it.

then, last night, i decided to 'beautify' the program and foo.c was born..

it displays moving lines in a window.. it provides the user with the wonderful
options to do 'more', 'less' and 'exit'.. it was hacked rather quickly to accomodate
more than one line at a time, and this shows in the code quality...

the performance is satisfactory even when running on a pure terminal (8bpp)...
of course higher bpp means more visually pleasing lines, but the performance
tradeoff is something you should decide for yourselves :)

enjoy (if you enjoy such things :)

andrey

ps: could someone please explain how to use '|fmt' in acme mail? i have to press
enter every line in order to make the mail somewhat readable :)