From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) In-Reply-To: References: <86299bd7f0d182c48e6e82e732ee5914@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <82DFC371-7DB3-42D0-89C2-A9641C03FC5A@comcast.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Gregory Pavelcak Subject: Re: [9fans] -mpm Again Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:50 -0400 To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6fd68006-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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