Re: [9fans] Standalone *nix port of sam

[Peter Penzin <penzin.dev@gmail.com>]

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Works on Linux, thank you!

It does not build on FreeBSD, trying to find out why. Are you hosting this
code anywhere?

-Peter

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Rob King <jking@deadpixi.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>     I don't know how much interest there'd be, but if anyone ever needs
> to run sam standalone on *nix (that is, without plan9port), there's a
> standalone version available. It's based on the original port to X11
> back in the 80s released by Lucent in 1989 or so.
>
>     There aren't any dependencies other than Xlib/Xft, and it comes with
> scalable font support, a much improved B shell command (handles multiple
> instances of sam, and even better can be invoked on any machine involved
> in a sam -r session, even the remote one), and a few other changes.
>
>     So yeah, it's not sam on Plan 9, but I have to use Linux on my work
> machines and can't install plan9port on them, so...there ya go. It
> should work on other *nix systems too, but I don't have any to try it
> out on. The code isn't pretty; I just hacked on it until I got it
> working the way I wanted to, but it's been stable enough for me.
>
>     The source is at http://www.deadpixi.com/an-updated-version-of-sam
>
>     Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
>     Rob
>
>
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