From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: alltom@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx os x From: "Russ Cox" Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:58:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <326364c20806291427q4364b2b8g4d862923a20eaab4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20080630015556.0DA2A1E8C6B@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc0b3cb0-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Does anyone else get errors about missing files when pulling? Many > other files are copied successfully before this: > > error: copying /n/boot/sys/src/games/mp3dec/COPYING: > '/n/boot/sys/src/games' does not exist > > error: copying /n/boot/sys/src/games/mp3dec/COPYRIGHT: > '/n/boot/sys/src/games' does not exist > > error: copying /n/boot/sys/src/games/mp3dec/D.dat: > '/n/boot/sys/src/games' does not exist > > error: copying /n/boot/sys/src/games/mp3dec/README: > '/n/boot/sys/src/games' does not exist > > ... > > Also, which man page(s) would I read to know how to work with special > files like #Z? I am unsure of what to do when I get errors like this: > > term% src echo > src: can't find source for /bin/echo - unrecognized type special file #Z/echo There are just a few programs that assume the only "normal" files come from the mount device (#M). I have patched my local version of file(1) to allow #Z along with #M. That seems to fix most of them. Russ