Re: [9fans] acme, rio workalike available in plan 9 ports

["Steve Simon" <steve.simon@snellwilcox.com>]

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> if rc is not stable enough it should be made stable enough.
> a _starting point_ for testing plan9 rc could be the ''trip'' test that 
> comes with byrons rc.

I'am afraid Byron made some changes from (the one true ?) rc,
some of these changes where usefull, some just taste but the bottom line
is that trip.rc will not run under plan9 rc without a lot or work.

-Steve

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From: Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme, rio workalike available in plan 9 ports
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:09:57 GMT
Message-ID: <c4jdis$bo9$1@newstree.wise.edt.ericsson.se>

Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> if rc is not stable enough it should be made stable enough.
> a _starting point_ for testing plan9 rc could be the ''trip'' test that 
> comes with byrons rc.

the starting point in question proved to be a bit of a problem. the very 
first thing (not even a test i presume) of trip.rc is:

# trip.rc -- take a tour of rc
# Invoke as "path-to-new-rc < trip.rc"

rc=$0
echo tripping $rc


byrons rc (brc) thinks that $0 is:
/home/eleberg/plan9/bin/rc

but plan9 rc (9rc) thinks $0 is:
/dev/stdin

i am sure there is a prefectly good reason for this. does anybody know 
the reason and have the time to explain?


bengt