inferno programmer's notebook

NAME lab 48 - symbol NOTES I'm clearing out the backlog and found this lab's code, which is really a continuation of earlier labs on the lispy-shell (26, 27, 28). I felt that where I was going with lab 28 wasn't working out, or was just going to end up looking like scsh (if I was lucky, and as smart as Olin Shivers). This attempt is more a mathematica-like-shell, and for a while was looking better, in that it fit in better with the existing sh, but now I've decided against it too. I'm posting it here just to record what I've done. I'll try and explain at the end why I don't like this approach anymore. In Mathematica everthing is an expression of the form f[x,y] which translates quite easily into the shell expression f x y Because of Inferno sh's command blocks, we can directly support the nesting in expressions: % Head {f x y} f % Head {f;x;y} List # a sequence of commands {f;x;y} is # represented as {List f x y} in "FullForm" And

NAME lab 47 - self tk NOTES I was inspired by watching a video about Sun's Self system, which also inspired Squeak's morphic user interface. The scripts in this lab were an attempt to get tk windows serving a file that described themselves, so that the file could be copied to disk, and later run to recreate the window. Here's an example. % ./text /chan/tk.239 % cp /chan/tk.239 t1 % run t1 You should now have two text windows open. Edit either one of them, then copy and run them again. Both the contents and the position of each window should be saved and restored. Right-clicking in the window brings up the titlebar, whichs pops up underneath the window because it is the last thing packed into the tk widget. Right-clicking again makes it disappear. One of the ideas being explored is that a set of widgets can be configured and placed on the screen then all the /chan/tk.* files copied to a directory that acts as a stored workspace, to be later restored with all the widg

NAME lab 46 - vac script NOTES This lab is an answer to Jack's question in the comments of lab 41. The putclump/getclump scripts can be made to work with blocks of data. The shell script for this lab, vac , will write a kfs file system to a venti-lite archive in blocks, taking advantage of block level redundancy. This is demonstration rather that something truly useful. It literally takes hours to store a 64MB kfs file system in venti-lite using this script. Note also, that it is trivial to implement putclump/getclump using the venti(2) module in inferno and store the blocks in a real venti archive. And this script will work the same way. I've also included a vcat script to readout the kfs filesystem in one go. I started writing a file2chan interface so I could run disk/kfs directly against the venti-lite archive, but didn't finish it. I've attached that too (clumpchan). Exercise for the reader is to finish it. FILES caerwyn.com/lab/46 2005/1207 I updated vac

NAME lab 45 - full screen NOTES I've been wanting to use inferno as a full-screen application on Nt. I don't know too much about the windows API but I took a peek at how Squeak does it. And that was enough to get it to work. This is a first pass at doing it. It should probably be done with parameters to emu. Ideally the inferno host window would be resizable with some way of switching to full screen and window while emu is running. Just copy the win.c file to your /emu/Nt directory and build. The -g option to emu needs to be the current settings for your monitor. The other files in this lab are the wmclient, tkclien,t and titlebar to make wm windows look more rio-like. I had done this in an earlier lab, but the wmclient code didn't work properly. The wmclient works properly now. But there's no backdrop menu for window control, which makes it a little difficult to hide and exit the windows. FILES caerwyn.com/lab/45