From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920711061439l2397764cq8037fe056c46054d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:39:53 +0100 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] consterm In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed077fec-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Why not just use Inferno? Caerwyn posted two lines that can be run on an inferno terminal and will 'cpu' into a plan9 box. I'm more and more convinced that maintaining drawterm is a waste of resources and it should be replaced with an Inferno package (ala acme-sac) that does the same thing reusing the already existing functionality in Inferno. uriel On Nov 6, 2007 10:43 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 11/6/07, Russ Cox wrote: > > On 11/6/07, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > > > Has anyone done a term program to connect to Plan 9 or Inferno -- > > > kinda like drawterm, without the draw bits? I guess I am thinking > > > about something that exports /dev/cons, /mnt/term, /dev/audio, etc. -- > > > but then just runs an rc on the other end instead of rio so I can just > > > run it within an xterm (or whatever). Seems like it would be a useful > > > thing to have. > > > > It is trivial to rip the gui out of drawterm and make reads and > > writes to /dev/cons redirect to reads and writes on /dev/tty > > instead of the graphics console. Patch below. > > > > There is no p9p cpu, only the very very sketchy beginnings. > > You're much better off starting with drawterm, especially if > > you want things like /dev/audio. > > > > Cool - kinda figured it would be easy to mod drawterm, just wondering > if someone had already done it. Thanks Russ. > > -eric >