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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:41:49 +0000
From: Wladimir Mutel <mwg@alkar.net>
Message-ID: <8IFHBQ$2NMV$1@PANDORA.ALKAR.NET>
Subject: [9fans] xterm or so - ?
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	Greetings,

	Please advise me on interoperability with existing unixes.
At my work I often use telnet/ssh/ssh2 to log on different hosts
from my desktop (now Linux or FreeBSD, sometimes with XFree86) and
change config files with 'vi' there. Having tried plan9's 'telnet', I found
that our hosts can support 'p9win' terminal only in dumb mode. It seems
that reasonable 'termcap' entry for this terminal could not be
expressed easily, so I think I need a terminal emulator like 'xterm'
under plan9, or perhaps an ability to run x-client 'xterm' remotely and use
local plan9 as x-server to have its window here.

	And besides, how do I set both-way mapping between koi8-r (cyrillic
	8-bit character encoding we use under unix) and unicode used on
	plan9? And in relation, how do I switch keyboard layouts between
	'latin' and 'cyrillic'? I would like to be able to do that
	instantly by hotkey, as I can set up on Linux or FreeBSD -
	is there any way ?

	Thanks those who know for any their suggestions :>

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