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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:54:31 -0800
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] winclear in p9p
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On 11/9/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > fn winclear {
> >         echo -n Edit ,d > /dev/acme/body
> >         echo -n /Edit ,d/ > /dev/acme/addr
> >         echo -n 'dot=addr' > /dev/acme/ctl
> >         cat /dev/acme/addr | awk '{printf("MX%s %s\n", $1, $2)}' > /dev/acme/event
> > }
>
> I finally read this part of the message.
> This is a remarkably complicated way to go about deleting the window text!

Yep and I posted it literally months ago as I was just exploring the
Acme filesystem.

>
> Here is a simpler one:
>
>         echo -n , >/mnt/acme/$winid/addr
>         echo -n >/mnt/acme/$winid/data
>
> (Or on Unix:
>         echo -n , | 9p write acme/$winid/addr
>         9p write acme/$winid/data </dev/null
> )
>
> Russ
>