Re: [9fans] acme/sam junky in need of advice

[Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>]

On 5/9/05, Richard Bilson <rcbilson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/9/05, Robert Raschke <rrplan9@tombob.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have tried the 9pm stuff (and the even older Sam for Windows), but
> > under XP Professional all the GUI programs hang.  I haven't managed to
> > get it to rebuild properly yet.
> 
> This isn't going to help Robby, but I'll point out, for the sake of
> the archives, that the 9pm sam works for me on XP pro. I do have
> problems with some of the other programs (rc, in particular).

I use all of the above regularly on XP SP2 with no problems.

Could you post a bug-inducing rc script for me to test?

As for Robby, there's always acme under Inferno, if you don't mind the
extra layer.  I've also seen rumors of people getting plan9ports
working under Cygwin (I wonder if it works under U/WIN as well?) so
there may be other options yet.

-Jack