Re: [9fans] sam/rc script problem

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Tue Dec 16 08:09:34 EST 2008, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> > P.S.: Is there anything more intelligent than 'vt' for connecting to a
> > linux machine?
>
> It all depends what you want to run on the linux box.
>
> if you need VT in order to run your editor you could edit the file remotely
> from plan9. To do this either run u9fs on the linux box, or pick up
> sftpfs from contrib and use ssh. You can then import your linux boxes
> namespace from plan9 (by convention put the magic in the 9fs script so its easy to do).

really, what you'd like to do is elimate the vt escapes.
p9p can take care of most of this for you.  if you use
ed for your editor, then you're all set. :-)

- erik