From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620603180654s4fa46217t4c0c0779e67f0775@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:54:14 -0800 From: "Jack Johnson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] 9pm customization Topicbox-Message-UUID: 18a67114-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/16/06, Jack Johnson wrote: > Speaking of which, do my eyes deceive me or did 9pm get updated on > Halloween? How did I miss that? > > Anyone know what might have changed? As I updated the version of 9pm on my USB key (I think), I remembered that there were bits "missing" that always drove me nuts, but I couldn't remember which ones, so I fired up a 9term and tried some things out. On my work workstation I have bzip2 in the path, so I copied that over. Thought some more, and Inferno ships with awk, so that's there now, too. Both of these spit out carriage returns at the end of the line, but they're functional and keep my fingers doing what they should. I pack around Inferno on the same USB key, but usually I want to monkey with files on the host in some semi-sane fashion and it's faster to just fire up 9pm than to jump through the hoops in Inferno. It occurred to me that it would be handy to either recompile awk and bzip2 to not generate the carriage return, or maybe to handle it some other way in 9pm so all of the local Windows utilities wouldn't be such a pain. Getting to the point, for those of you who still use 9pm, what have you added to your path to make it more livable? Have you found that any of the utilities that ship with Inferno are more up to date? -Jack