* [9fans] Awakening the Dormant and Printing with the Illiterate @ 2009-08-18 4:33 Akshat Kumar 2009-08-18 4:40 ` andrey mirtchovski 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Akshat Kumar @ 2009-08-18 4:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs I've been looking into the tools of Research UNIX versions 7 and 8 and 4.2BSD, as well as other old utilities that we may still find useful. So, with the sources at hand of most such programs, I've started porting some to native Plan 9. As the ports are completed, I'll make them available in /n/sources/contrib/akumar/^(cmd relic). Only a couple exist so far; diff(1) files are included for comparison - I've tried to retain the original coding style and logic. See the respective NOTES files for extraneous comments in the style of annotations, and some background information on the tools. If there are any such tools you would find useful and would like to see ported to Plan 9, let me know (perhaps offline). Thanks to Russ Cox's help and Prof. Kenji Okamoto's code, I was able to get my Post- script illiterate printer, an HP OfficeJet 5610, to print with Plan 9. For anyone else requiring IJS support in gs(1) (hpijs binary included), the necessary files are in /n/sources/contrib/akumar/gs -- see the NOTES file therein for documentation and references. Best, ak ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Awakening the Dormant and Printing with the Illiterate 2009-08-18 4:33 [9fans] Awakening the Dormant and Printing with the Illiterate Akshat Kumar @ 2009-08-18 4:40 ` andrey mirtchovski 2009-08-18 4:49 ` erik quanstrom 2009-08-18 5:01 ` Akshat Kumar 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2009-08-18 4:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs make sure you teach cat(1) the -v flag. that should make some people very happy and will widely be regarded as a good move ;) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Awakening the Dormant and Printing with the Illiterate 2009-08-18 4:40 ` andrey mirtchovski @ 2009-08-18 4:49 ` erik quanstrom 2009-08-18 5:01 ` Akshat Kumar 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-08-18 4:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans On Tue Aug 18 00:42:24 EDT 2009, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote: > make sure you teach cat(1) the -v flag. that should make some people > very happy and will widely be regarded as a good move ;) i believe the point here is that the first paper i read on plan 9 "Plan 9 from Bell Labs", /sys/doc/9.ps points out that dropping the old tools is part of the point! Providing a more efficent way to run the old UNIX warhorses is empty engineering... i'm all for history. but there are plenty of old timey unix projects. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] Awakening the Dormant and Printing with the Illiterate 2009-08-18 4:40 ` andrey mirtchovski 2009-08-18 4:49 ` erik quanstrom @ 2009-08-18 5:01 ` Akshat Kumar 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Akshat Kumar @ 2009-08-18 5:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs > make sure you teach cat(1) the -v flag. that should make some people > very happy and will widely be regarded as a good move ;) Research UNIX version 8 has vis(1) -- the not-so-harmful. ak ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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