From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sat,  9 Sep 1995 11:41:42 -0400
From: Mikael Cardell mkc@maja.link.bull.se
Subject: gnot1.link.bull.se online
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Plan 9 is now up and running on my office PC. It's a 
Zenith Data Systems Z-select 100 486DX/66MHz, with 8 MB RAM, 
Cirrus VGA logic and a Zenith multisync 72 Hz monitor. I'm
currently running 8 1/2 at 1024x768x1, since I couldn't get 
1024x768x8 to work.

I had some initial problems to get the machine to talk TCP/IP
with the rest of the machines here at Telco Solutions. 
Strangely enough, I couldn't set the IP number 'by hand' with
ipconfig. It wasn't until I changed sysname to be set
explicitly, instead of reading from /dev/sysname, which I don't
know how to set, in /bin/termrc that things started to work.
Previously, I tried either to run ipconfig -a after setting
sysname by hand or using ipconfig to force a set of the
local IP number.

I'm now using ftpfs to edit this file on the production 
server, a Bull DPX/20 690 running AIX. I'm about to port
u9fs to AIX, if it hasn't been done allready, but ftpfs works
fine for now, almost like ange-ftp in Emacs, except for one
thing --- I don't seem to be able to find dot-files, starting
with a '.'.

One problem with ftpfs is that its mount point is only known
to the process that forked and execed the ftpfs command and
its children. I don't know how to change that, but I guess
I have to dabble some in mount and bind.

I also find that the editing capabilities of the windows in
8 1/2 doesn't work over telnet connections. Strange things
happen; sometimes I don't seem to get out of the edit mode,
as invoked by pressing ESC. Sometimes, I can't get into
edit mode at all, the ESC being swalloved by telnet.
 
When I telnet, the TERM environment variable on the target
machine gets set automagically to 'p9win'. Does anyone
have a description of the p9win terminal suitable for
termcap or terminfo?

mikael