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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| (04-06-2023, 10:29 PM)seninha Wrote: I created this pixmap .bdf font to use on X11 applications using XLFD (basically xterm).
I know... It is ugly... But I like it that way.
I am using it in all my ... |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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20-01-2024, 12:15 PM |
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Thread: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
Post: RE: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
| (21-04-2022, 11:32 PM)seninha Wrote: My first Linux distro (and UNIX system) was
In late 2011, after disliking GNOME 3, I briefly moved to Kubuntu until I settled in Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 4.
I... |
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seninha |
GNU/Linux
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20-01-2024, 11:54 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (09-08-2023, 12:55 PM)movq Wrote: In the beginning, I used ls(1).
I also have my list-directory-entries alternative, dir, which is just a wrapper script around color-tree.
"d" is an alias to it.
d ... |
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seninha |
Programming On Unix
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16-08-2023, 09:27 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (24-07-2022, 10:52 AM)pfr Wrote: How do you change the teddy to beastie? did you need to patch xteddy or is there a command line option I don't know about?
You can pass xteddy a png file with the -F... |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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04-06-2023, 10:37 PM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| I created this pixmap .bdf font to use on X11 applications using XLFD (basically xterm).
I know... It is ugly... But I like it that way.
I am using it in all my applications now.
[Image: https://i.po... |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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04-06-2023, 10:29 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (27-03-2023, 06:35 PM)jkl Wrote: Sadly, on macOS's Homebrew, rc comes without readline. I don't really want to install pkgsrc on this computer just to have that. I wonder if there is an easy fix.I c... |
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seninha |
BSD
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29-03-2023, 04:45 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Working again on my file manager: https://0x0.st/o5Un.mp4
This time, I've rewritten it from scratch.
Thumbnail loading is way faster now. Once cached, they are loaded immediately into the window.
Th... |
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seninha |
Programming On Unix
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26-12-2022, 11:07 AM |
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Thread: Historical GUI Websites
Post: Historical GUI Websites
| I opened wiby.me, clicked "surprise me" and got surprised!
I found GUIdebook Gallery, a (currently unmantained) collection of icons, screenshots, articles, books and other stuff on graphical interfac... |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-10-2022, 07:38 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| And here it is: https://github.com/phillbush/plumb
I changed the config syntax a bit.
It does not set X properties. I'll just use another program/script for that.
The only dependency is libmime to ge... |
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seninha |
Programming On Unix
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06-10-2022, 08:09 PM |
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Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?
| (02-10-2022, 12:51 PM)kuba Wrote: My first post here.
Welcome, mate!
Don't forget to join us on irc: #nixers at libera.chat |
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Off topic
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02-10-2022, 02:59 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I'm working on a plumber script, here's its config file:
Code:# sample config file for seninha's plumber script (which will probably
# be rewritten into a C application).
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# - Each paragraph (block ... |
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seninha |
Programming On Unix
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01-10-2022, 09:42 PM |
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Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers
| I rewrote the menu system I use for application launching (and several other stuff) from scratch.
It's called ctrlmenu
It now has a better config syntax and I can open applications, look for man page... |
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seninha |
GNU/Linux
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23-09-2022, 09:33 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (16-09-2022, 08:10 AM)josuah Wrote: Small tip: the most critical information that is missing from any default shell, in a portable way: the last command error code.
You can also use the builtin `tra... |
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seninha |
BSD
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16-09-2022, 07:23 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I'm working on a Window Maker dockapp.
It is a mpd client that shows the album art on the dock and has a few controller features.
Here's a vid: https://ttm.sh/q3O.webm
Although I'm testing it on Windo... |
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seninha |
Programming On Unix
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14-09-2022, 01:04 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| Nothing changed.
Except the dockbar, which has a new menu dockapp.
EDIT: Now with a xteddy smug beastie!
[Image: https://i.postimg.cc/sfxLjH88/2022-06-16-bestie.png] |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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16-06-2022, 10:02 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I'm working in control, my last (and probably most ambitious?) project.
It is a X11 widget toolkit (or widget set) for writing GUI programs.
Currently it only provides a single widget, the text input... |
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seninha |
Programming On Unix
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31-05-2022, 04:19 PM |
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Thread: Which BSD do you use?
Post: RE: Which BSD do you use?
| My history and choice of OpenBSD is more personal than technical.
I started to code actual programs for Unix (until then I have only written school stuff and exercises) in 2020. I'd took advantage of... |
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seninha |
BSD
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23-05-2022, 08:52 AM |
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Thread: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
Post: RE: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
| My first Linux distro (and UNIX system) was Ubuntu, in 2009, when I was 13.
I migrated to Ubuntu from Windows 7 after some problem with Firefox I cannot remember now.
The first Unix-related community ... |
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seninha |
GNU/Linux
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21-04-2022, 11:32 PM |
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Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers
| I redid my launcher system.
Now the menu, prompt, and keybindings are handled by a single program, xmenu.
I have posted it on my blog here with a video illustrating the usage. |
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seninha |
GNU/Linux
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20-04-2022, 08:57 AM |
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Thread: blogs
Post: RE: blogs
| I also write my blog in plain text, using a markup language I created and call incipit.
I then use an awk script to convert the txts to a body-only html.
Then, I use m4 to envelope the body into a ful... |
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seninha |
The WWW
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20-04-2022, 08:48 AM |
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Thread: Post your website
Post: RE: Post your website
| My homepage and blog: seninha.org.
I had the seninha.net domain some years ago but I lost it and now there's a Chinese thing parking it...
(19-04-2022, 04:20 PM)akoizumi Wrote: my blog is on a sepa... |
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The WWW
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20-04-2022, 08:39 AM |
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Thread: Yet another self-introduction
Post: RE: Yet another self-introduction
| Welcome, akoizumi!
You can also join #nixers on irc, at libera.chat, the channel is very active.
I really like your home page! And I just followed your blog's feed.
Keep us in touch in your blog abou... |
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seninha |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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20-04-2022, 08:38 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (08-04-2022, 10:02 PM)VMS Wrote: In the meantime, I present my last experiment. A mostly pkgsrc based Solaris 11.4 CBE desktop (fvwm3), inspired by the CDE look of Solaris 8 to 10, and running as a ... |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-04-2022, 08:40 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (25-03-2022, 09:53 AM)VMS Wrote: In the meantime, here's a new dark/cyan fvwm theme for my Slackware box:I love your desktop. Very consistent and beautiful.
FVWM is my favorite wm, I like it even mo... |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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25-03-2022, 10:29 AM |
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Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
| (23-02-2022, 05:06 AM)pfr Wrote: I tried a tool called DavisI've never heard of it. Gonna check it.
I use mpd+mpc, and some scripts and tools:
• A script to pop-up a xnotifier window displaying the... |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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23-02-2022, 11:15 AM |
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Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
| 2022 update.
After adding support for dockapps on shod, I started to use them, especially system monitor dockapps.
I think that a dock is better than a bar: the content of a bar is limited to text (i... |
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seninha |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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18-02-2022, 09:51 AM |
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Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor
| On my OpenBSD desktop, I configured apmd to log every minute at /var/log. I also configured sensorsd.conf to set a high temperature value that, when passed, a message should be logged.
Then, I run an ... |
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seninha |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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12-02-2022, 09:36 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| 13
The chapter begins with an introduction to the sd(3) device (#S) and the files it serves; this device is usually bound to /dev. There's a global control file (/dev/sdctl) and one directory for ea... |
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seninha |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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08-01-2022, 08:04 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Happy new year everyone!
That's the second to last session of the book club.
Just more two chapters to end this book.
Chapter 11
What we know as threads in the UNIX world, in Plan 9 is just a proces... |
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seninha |
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01-01-2022, 12:16 AM |
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Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers
| (19-07-2021, 10:07 AM)seninha Wrote: I have three launching systems:
• Right click menu with pmenu.
• Prompt/runner with xprompt.
• Keybindings with sxhkd.
Three launching systems?
It's time for me ... |
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seninha |
GNU/Linux
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29-12-2021, 10:59 PM |
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Thread: Retrospective 2021
Post: Retrospective 2021
| How was your 2021? Both in the computer and real lives?
What have you learned, read, achieved, created or (not) done this year?
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Different from 2020, now I had online classes both semesters, so mos... |
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seninha |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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19-12-2021, 03:45 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Because of festive reasons, next book club session will be delayed from 2021-12-25 to 2022-01-01.
Happy Holidays, everyone! |
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seninha |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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19-12-2021, 03:10 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Chapter 9 is a continuation of chapter 8: shell scripting tools.
It also talks about regular expressions, grep, sed and awk.
Nothing that different from Unix.
The chapter ends with examples of file s... |
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seninha |
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18-12-2021, 02:06 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (11-12-2021, 04:55 AM)movq Wrote: So I guess unless the AoC programs need to be longer, I’ll be switching to Python for now.I understand.
I have been rewriting some of my C programs into higher-leve... |
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seninha |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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11-12-2021, 06:25 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (05-12-2021, 05:54 AM)movq Wrote: Some guys at work (not programmers, either) started doing it in Excel. I’ll have to check how far they made it …Someone did it in excel: https://0x0.st/-hIh.png |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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05-12-2021, 02:49 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (05-12-2021, 08:03 AM)Dworin Wrote: I have spent an unreasonable amount of time (I would definitely not get hired!), mainly because I had to figure out how to read data from a file into my variables... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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05-12-2021, 02:11 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| I had almost no time this week with my computer with the 9front virtual machine to run the code in the chapters and read them. I'm gonna review this week's chapters next saturday. Sorry about that. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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05-12-2021, 02:05 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| I updated the original post with the current leaderboard points.
Doing in awk again just because I don't want to spend time parsing input.
If you are pushing your solutions to a git repository or som... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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01-12-2021, 05:01 PM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| Learn golang: Nope. I had so much to do and the college took me so much time that I could not learn golang this year.
Learn more about programming in UNIX: I'm still programming in UNIX but my knowled... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-11-2021, 11:53 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Chapter 5 covers the basic IPC mechanisms for Plan 9. It begins with
IO redirection on rc (with the < and > operators) and on C (with dp(2)).
Redirection of one file descriptor to other other i... |
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28-11-2021, 01:52 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (21-11-2021, 02:40 PM)movq Wrote: I really want to dig through all that. I want to use troff more often. I have some super large documents (thousands of pages) that are currently turned into PDFs us... |
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Programming On Unix
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21-11-2021, 03:44 PM |
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Thread: rm -i
Post: RE: rm -i
| I (with the help of the #bash IRC channel) created this function that simulates GNU rm -I (the less-intrusive interactive functionality that GNU rm has). Just put it in your ~/.kshrc: https://0x0.st/-... |
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seninha |
BSD
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21-11-2021, 12:48 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| (20-11-2021, 04:40 AM)venam Wrote: One thing that is different though are the arguments for the dd command,
they got dashes now.In rc(1) the = character is special not only at the beginning of the c... |
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20-11-2021, 11:20 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I have been playing with troff recently.
Motivated on that, I did a presentation on how to create a troff macro package, and I create a macro package.
This macro package contains macro for formatting... |
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Programming On Unix
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19-11-2021, 02:03 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| (13-11-2021, 04:56 AM)venam Wrote: Similarly, in the shell, arrow up doesn't show the previous command but
scrolls up. Obviously, there's no tab completion either.
Overall, I'll still need a while t... |
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