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From: EBo <ebo@sandien.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] docfonts problem
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:40:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c0f2983687d761fc77ff8a214d12998@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=uDgt9pMx1rWb4_Wj=0eBdua19pmHhDc-DOn5N@mail.gmail.com>



> It's just not that hard to use the iwp9 macros with plan9port.
> They work fine, and if you put .FP luxisans at the top of your
> ms file you can get a nice-looking B&H-designed sans serif font too.
> And then when you submit the source to them you or they
> can delete that one line.  It's easy.

and as far as I know you are the first to document this little gem.  Thank
you.

> Or you can run 9vx pointed at a real Plan 9 ISO image
> and run Plan 9 in all its glory.  That's easy too.

that was about to be my next step, but I haven't been using 9vx for much
of anything for awhile because it does everything in a single core and I
want to test how well things work on multi-cores.  So, I'm trying to work
with mainly one toolset -- in this case plan9port.




      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-12 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-09 16:14 erik quanstrom
2010-09-11 22:10 ` Russ Cox
2010-09-12  5:03   ` EBo
2010-09-12 15:42     ` Russ Cox
2010-09-12 16:57       ` EBo
2010-09-12 18:17         ` Russ Cox
2010-09-12 18:40           ` EBo [this message]

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