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From: Gregory Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net>
To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] -mpm Again
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82DFC371-7DB3-42D0-89C2-A9641C03FC5A@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a050726092157e517fc@mail.gmail.com>


On Jul 26, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> I've seen some archived talk about -mpm, and
>> even built it on FreeBSD 4.11 from plan9port.
>> But my question is is it possible to get a working
>> aux/pm binary onto a current Plan 9 system and,
>> if it is, how?
>>
>
> Three options, in decreasing order of difficulty.
>
> 1. Write a C++ compiler for Plan 9.
> 2. Convert the mpm sources from C++ to C by hand.
> 3. 9fs sources; cp /n/sources/contrib/rsc/pm /386/bin/aux/pm
>
> That binary is from the 2e CD.  I've been using a different,
> newer binary locally, but I doubt it matters and I feel more
> comfortable putting out the previously-released one.
> If you find it doesn't work, let me know.
>
> Russ
>


Hmmmm. I guess I'll just randomly pick... Ohhhh.... 3

Russ, you have made my day. Already did 3 and used it successfully on
one small file.

I'm a little embarrassed for not having searched it out myself.
Thanks very much.

Greg




  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-26 15:59 Gregory Pavelcak
2005-07-26 16:21 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-26 16:37   ` Gregory Pavelcak [this message]
2005-07-27  5:57   ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-27 13:09     ` Russ Cox
2005-07-27 13:14       ` Charles Forsyth

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