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Date: Thu,  8 Feb 2007 18:10:23 -0500
From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net>
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Subject: [9fans] Page ported to plan9port
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Hi,

I've ported page(1) to plan9port. Since the default ghostscript on most 
systems doesn't support plan9 bitmaps, I have it output windows bitmaps 
and pipe them through bmp(1) (messing with ghostscript isn't worth the 
trouble, unless Russ wants to pester them to put it into the default 
distro).

You can get it here: http://suckless.org/~jg/page.tgz

There are a few things that aren't as well as I'd like:
1. I switched to libthread, but I still have to fork/exec for gs, 
because it needs 5 file descriptors, and threadspawnl allows only 3. I 
looked at the threadspawnl code, and it forks/execs itself, and I 
haven't had any issues.

2. To get the screen size, I used an ugly hack of spawning "xdpyinfo | 
grep dimensions:" and parsing it. I'd like to know if libdraw provides 
another way to get these.

3. There are some conversion commands which specify programs in fb/, 
which exists neither on plan 9, nor in p9p. Does anyone know what/where 
they were?