From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <397671E2.9010808@noos.fr> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:28:34 +0200 From: Boyd Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; N; Win98; en-US; m14) Netscape6/6.0b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9term? References: <20000719221456.A27835@000pri069.bresnanlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6d7e6c0-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Colin DeVilbiss wrote: > hi; sorry if there is a 9term-fans somewhere, but I don't know where it > is. > I am currently using a Redhat 5.X install of linux as my primary > environment, and I recently discovered plan9 and would like to go for > the ``full compatibility'' suite insofar as it is possible (wily > (check), sam (check), 9wm (check), 9term (no check)). > > however, I am having the damnedest time wrestling with the > source/Makefiles from the 9term distro (1.6.6) to get it to install. (I > have an apparently working 9libs install with wily and sam running > successfully). > 9term, now there's a badly written piece a junk. i hacked it a lot (on ultrix) so that it wouldn't call ioctl() on _every_ keystroke (yes i'd found some undocumented ultrix pty 'features' to help me out). god, that program was awful. the goal, ok. the implementation? the phrase 'thow up on your shoes' springs to mind. it was painful, i had time, jack daniels and ISDN. -- Boyd Roberts boyd@psycho-basket-case.org ``I come over here to kill them cocksuckers, not work for 'em'' -- Moon Dog, _Pettibone's Law_, John Keene