From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] web plumbing on OS X drawterm
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:57:28 -0400
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> I mostly get to my Plan 9 cpu servers via drawterm from
> my OS X laptop these days (9vx soon, once I get a
> comfortable environment there). I have a script that
> calls drawterm with the right arguments. I just added
> this to the script:
> 	mkfifo /tmp/open.fifo
> 	while () {open `{cat open.fifo}}

There is a web command in plan9port, so this doesn't
need to be OS X specific:

	mkfifo /tmp/web.fifo
	while() { web `{cat /tmp/web.fifo} }

Russ