Re: [9fans] inferno acme

[C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>]

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no he's just unlucky in various ways and we're quite busy
(especially when one or more of us are on summer holiday).

one piece of bad luck is that he sent me a message earlier
today that prompted me to take another look at some problems
he'd had, several of which i couldn't reproduce, and indeed i
was well into looking at it when his complaint arrived on this list...

anyhow, i couldn't reproduce several of the more peculiar
problems (`/bin/limbo' phase error -- directory entry not allocated' looked like
remove whilst in use which nearly puts this note on topic)
but i have mended those that i did reproduce, found a few more,
and put new update packs for the 15 july 2002 update set
on our site.

to bring it a little more on topic, those packs allow a Plan 9 4th edition
user to update a Plan 9 (only) 3e inferno installation to work under
4th edition.  the old emu binary nearly worked as is, but 3e directory
reading isn't emulated as russ has just noted.

to answer another question: the Plan 9 4e CD we issue has got an Inferno
distribution that will also work under 4e.

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From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] inferno acme
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:58:32 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0208141057350.27336-100000@athena>

> the activity in inferno mailing list is too low and most questions go
> unanswered, so i thought atleast someone will respond here.
>
Now that's just snide and incorrect.  I've never had problems getting
my questions answered.

Of course, it could be your tone ...

Cheers,

Sam