From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:46:22 -0700 From: Kurt H Maier To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <20171018004622.GA89494@wopr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] questions whose answers are only known by people who abandoned 9fans Topicbox-Message-UUID: c3734cea-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Speaking of letter capitalization, Between the v10/jerq implementation of sam and the plan 9 implementation of sam, the '@' operator (which behaved like '*' except it also matched newlines) was removed. Please make shit up to explain this and/or tell us if you actually know why. Thanks, khm From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:50:55 -0700 From: Kurt H Maier To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <20171018005055.GB89494@wopr> References: <20171018004622.GA89494@wopr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171018004622.GA89494@wopr> Subject: Re: [9fans] questions whose answers are only known by people who abandoned 9fans Topicbox-Message-UUID: c3791d78-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 05:46:22PM -0700, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > implementation of sam, the '@' operator (which behaved like '*' except The '@' operator (c=ANYNL) behaved like '.' (c=ANY) not '*' (c=STAR). Apologies for the egregious misinformation, khm From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171018005055.GB89494@wopr> References: <20171018004622.GA89494@wopr> <20171018005055.GB89494@wopr> From: Rob Pike Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:56:12 +1100 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="001a113f261cfbc82f055bc7b5f0" Subject: Re: [9fans] questions whose answers are only known by people who abandoned 9fans Topicbox-Message-UUID: c37f021a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a113f261cfbc82f055bc7b5f0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" It went away because it wasn't necessary. -rob On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 05:46:22PM -0700, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > > > implementation of sam, the '@' operator (which behaved like '*' except > > The '@' operator (c=ANYNL) behaved like '.' (c=ANY) not '*' (c=STAR). > > Apologies for the egregious misinformation, > khm > > --001a113f261cfbc82f055bc7b5f0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
It went away because it wasn't necessary.

-rob


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm@scio= ps.net> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 05:46:22PM -0700, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>
> implementation of sam, the '@' operator (which behaved like &#= 39;*' except

The '@' operator (c=3DANYNL) behaved like '.' (c=3DA= NY) not '*' (c=3DSTAR).

Apologies for the egregious misinformation,
khm


--001a113f261cfbc82f055bc7b5f0-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:21:10 -0700 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20171018012110.GC89494@wopr> References: <20171018004622.GA89494@wopr> <20171018005055.GB89494@wopr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] questions whose answers are only known by people who abandoned 9fans Topicbox-Message-UUID: c38b6c76-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:56:12AM +1100, Rob Pike wrote: > It went away because it wasn't necessary. Thanks for the insight. khm From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jules.merit.eurocorp.us@gmail.com (Jules Merit) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:36:55 -0700 Subject: [9fans] questions whose answers are only known by people who abandoned 9fans In-Reply-To: <20171018012110.GC89494@wopr> References: <20171018004622.GA89494@wopr> <20171018005055.GB89494@wopr> <20171018012110.GC89494@wopr> Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: c3a36772-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Begin Game Romero On Oct 17, 2017 6:22 PM, "Kurt H Maier" wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:56:12AM +1100, Rob Pike wrote: > > It went away because it wasn't necessary. > > Thanks for the insight. > > khm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: