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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to set up network?
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:57:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <998fa710f6d8db1698957f0d68952f59@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77f2dc5a-f9ba-446d-93db-315eb4f8f859@l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>

On Mon Jun 29 05:44:58 EDT 2009, kotzkroete@gmail.com wrote:
> Alright,
> I have now set up a cpu/auth/file server and can login with drawterm.
> But I have not yet understood the concept of terminals in plan9 and
> can't find any useful information on it.
> Can somebody please explain to me what a terminal server in a plan9
> network really is and does, I didn't find anything helpful, plan9
> documention is really sparse.

i think you mean a terminal.  a terminal is a personal machine,
typically running rio(1).  the hostowner is you.  you can emulate
one with drawterm.  they are mentioned in the first three
paragraphs of /sys/doc/net/net.ps.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-29 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1.1245067201.23747.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-15 13:51 ` Sean Thomas Caron
2009-06-19 15:33   ` Angelo Papenhoff
2009-06-19 16:01     ` John Floren
2009-06-29  9:38     ` Angelo Papenhoff
2009-06-29 11:57       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-06-15  9:14 Angelo Papenhoff
2009-06-15 12:19 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-15 13:12 ` Sergey Kornilovich
2009-06-15 13:35   ` erik quanstrom

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