arnold847's articles:

Items(73) /8 Next >> Last >|

[9fans] a cute small Intel cube 3 57 (9/24/2012 9:20:20 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hi All. This might make an interesting 9box: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/intels-core-i3-nuc-mini-boards-set-to-hit-mket-in-october-po/ Arnold ... arnold

[9fans] stripping down the kernel for an small embedded systems? 3 21 (9/3/2012 6:34:38 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi 9fans. A colleague asked me some questoins about the Plan 9 kernel that I could not answer. For a small x86-based embedded system (*deeply* embedded), how small would the Plan 9 kernel be if one remo... arnold

Looking for someone to take over awk.info 0 35 (8/12/2012 7:24:11 PM) comp.lang.awk Hello All. The awk.info domain belongs to me, and a while back Tim Menzies set up a nice site. Unfortunately, though, he has not updated in close to a year and a half, and does not expect to get to it. ... arnold

[9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs 33 53 (6/17/2012 5:20:35 PM) comp.os.plan9 http://raymii.org/cms/p_Small_Linux_PCs_overview Arnold ... arnold

[9fans] [off topic] how one linux distro chooses to handle secure boot 1 51 (6/3/2012 5:48:54 PM) comp.os.plan9 http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html ... arnold

Re: [9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports? 1 44 (5/30/2012 6:11:12 AM) comp.os.plan9 Thanks to everyone for the advice. > On Tue May 29 23:48:31 EDT 2012, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote: > > short hardcoded paths are an advantage. this is not linux. this > > is plan9. there are rules. the kerne... arnold

[9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports? 3 31 (5/24/2012 7:03:25 PM) comp.os.plan9 Is there a simple recipe to use p9p troff to format the manual pages from the plan 9 dist? I.e.: Install Plan 9 Ports wget plan9.iso from bell labs mount said iso /some/where 9 rc cd /some/where/s... arnold

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com? 2 32 (5/2/2012 6:06:20 PM) comp.os.plan9 Thanks Erik. Is it hard to produce a tar ball of .ps or .pdf files from current troff input? Thanks, Arnold ... arnold

[9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com? 9 32 (5/2/2012 1:04:12 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi. Do the postscript / PDF files available from http://plan9.bell-labs.com reflect the current state of the system? I'm curious about both the reference manual and the various files from /sys/doc. Thanks! ... arnold

Gawk 4.0.1 now available 5 141 (3/29/2012 6:51:40 PM) comp.lang.awk Greetings all. This note announces the next minor release of GNU Awk: version 4.0.1. The following files may be retrieved from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk, or via HTTP from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk: -rw-r-... arnold

arnold847's replies:

Items(54) /6 Next >> Last >|

[9fans] formatting the manual from plan9 ports? 3 31 (5/24/2012 7:03:25 PM) comp.os.plan9 Is there a simple recipe to use p9p troff to format the manual pages from the plan 9 dist? I.e.: Install Plan 9 Ports wget plan9.iso from bell labs mount said iso /some/where 9 rc cd /some/where/s... arnold847 (183)

understanding time format conversions 10 91 (6/1/2012 2:30:59 AM) comp.lang.awk [ Gnu awk 4.0.0 ]=20 [ Ubuntu 12.04 ] I have a serious misunderstanding of strftime. The example below attempts s= ome conversions which fail (giving 31Dec69). Some related time examples wor= k for me fro... bryanlepore (24)

extract multiple columns based on header 17 117 (6/20/2012 5:10:53 AM) comp.lang.awk Hi, I have the following problem that I'm trying to solve with awk with little success. Anyone can help? In the file data.txt I have a large table with 60000 rows and 2000 columns. The first column and the ... ludowk (2)

mawk wish list 2 53 (8/25/2012 10:29:18 AM) comp.lang.awk mawk 1.3.4 from Thomas Dickey http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ his mawk is even faster than mawk 1.3.3 on some things like array references it is 3X ~ 10X faster than awk or gawk ...... http://awk.freeshe... g0ph3r.1 (1)

RS regex, non-canonical terminal 5 45 (8/28/2012 4:15:20 AM) comp.lang.awk I've been experimenting with using gawk on a non-canonical mode terminal fo= r a small personal project of mine. I've run into behavior I can't explain when using a regex as the RS. I've d= esigned the fol... mwh6 (155)

[9fans] stripping down the kernel for an small embedded systems? 3 21 (9/3/2012 6:34:38 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi 9fans. A colleague asked me some questoins about the Plan 9 kernel that I could not answer. For a small x86-based embedded system (*deeply* embedded), how small would the Plan 9 kernel be if one remo... arnold847 (183)

Stop Reading Input Without EOF/nextfile/getline 17 72 (9/4/2012 8:53:43 PM) comp.lang.awk I was recently trying to answer a question and came across a problem I don't know if there is an answer to: how can you stop reading from an input stream without waiting for EOF or invoking getline or (in gaw... mortonspam (827)

Is awk suitable for this? 40 77 (9/10/2012 4:46:38 PM) comp.lang.awk We need these heuristics to trim out the repetative garbage that even the minimalist lynx/links fetches from http-pages. How would `awk` or other method do:- f1 : FileOfLinesToDelete from f2 : DataFil... no.top.post (346)

convert to lowercase in regex only 11 60 (9/21/2012 11:48:50 AM) comp.lang.awk Hello group. I know that the tolower("FoO") function converts each character in "FoO" to its lowercase equivalent "foo". What I'm trying to do is to apply this function to regexes, i.e. I want to replac... erichhoffmann (4)

[9fans] a cute small Intel cube 3 57 (9/24/2012 9:20:20 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hi All. This might make an interesting 9box: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/intels-core-i3-nuc-mini-boards-set-to-hit-mket-in-october-po/ Arnold ... arnold847 (183)