From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] a few questions about using Plan 9 From: anothy@cosym.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020415195217.7DDC219999@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:52:08 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77f19f6a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 1) no, plan 9 has nothing like an su. re-login with ssh or such. 2) you're looking for faces(1). it's mainly intended for monitoring email. 3) easy: 'cp /dev/screen /tmp/foo ; page /tmp/foo' 4) heh. this is harder. plan 9 lacks most of the serious work needed for localization. you'll find that things like error messages are always english (american?). it does support unicode, however, and there are some tools that can make typing non-latin alphabets (like russian) nicer (i use ktrans regularly). you might try searching the archives for ktrans or kbd.c. it's not a full solution by any means, but should help make the system useful for you. google has comp.os.plan9 archived at: http://groups.google.com/groups?grup=comp.os.plan9&hl=en ア